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Why I Wrote The Catholic Tide Continues To Turn – Dave Hartline, The American Catholic

Stunning Abbaye Notre-Dame de l’Annonciation – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

The Decline of the Diocese of Albany by Fr. Z – Big Pulpit

Artists Should be Guardians of Beauty, Not Purveyors of the Voyeuristic – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

The Smiling Pope’s Letter to Mark Twain: Humor, Hitler, and Three Different Johns - Brandon Vogt, Ignitum Today

Catholics Can’t Comply with the HHS Mandate – Michael Gorman, First Things/On the Square

Thomas Friedman and the Pro-Life Movement – Anna Williams, First Things/First Thoughts

Of Processions, Flower Girls, Quzzing Altar Boys. . . – Fr. Z’s Blog

Sights and Sounds of a Young North Carolina Priest’s First Mass – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Does the Real Presence Violate the Old Testament Law? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Is the Church behind the BBC’s Child Sex Abuse Scandal? – Mark Brumley, The CWR Blog

The Contradictions of Jimmy Savile – William Oddie, Catholic Herald

Chesterton, Shaw, and the Effect of Laughter on Insult – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

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