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Weakness That Makes Us Strong - Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev: St. Matthew Passion No. 1 - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Why Do Catholics Abstain From Meat? - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Does the Law Exist to Make Men Virtuous? Six Thoughts from Aquinas - H. H. Ambrose - Saint Peter’s List

Obama Losing Public Opinion War On Mandate - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

The Pope and Mexico’s Spiritual Crisis - Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Catholic World Report

Catholic vs. Public School - Bonnie Engstrom, Ignitum Today

We’re Ready for Pastoral Letter on Homosexual Condition - Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

Padre Pio is Italy’s Most Loved Saint, Not So Much Outside of Italy - Paolo Gambi, Catholic Herald

Famed Ecclesiastical Tailors, The Gammarelli’s, Launches Website - Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Pope’s Address to U.S. Bishops: Marriage & Sexuality - Fr. Z’s Blog

Move Over Chanel No. 5, It’s Benedict No. 16 - Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

Major Victory for Natural Law in France - Grégor Puppinck PhD, Turtle Bay and Beyond

Catholicism, Protestantism, & St. Paul’s Vision of the Church - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

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