December 2010

Reading Newsweek is Like a Blind Man Reading a Coloring Book – Sarah P. Bailey, Get Rlgn

Assemble Your Baby, Plan Your Life, Die Like a Computer – Stacy Trasancos, Accptng Abndnc

Ember Days – Pinky, The American Catholic

Survey: California-based Catholic Radio Network Having Impact in Western U.S. – CNA

Atheism Has Done Little for Women’s Dignity – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

The Advent Search – David Mills, On The Square

A Thing Not A Theory – Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

Marriage Is In Trouble – Charles Colson, Catholic Exchange

Is the Abbreviation “Xmas” a Secular Slight, Or Something Else? – Msgr. Ch. Pope, AoW

The Need for Reparation – Eric Sammons, The Divine Life

America’s 1st Approved Apparition Was WHAT??? – Jimmy Akin, National Cthlc Register

Another Professor Corrects Dissident Catholic Robert Orsi – Rick Garnett, Mrrr of Jstc

Seminarian Wants Advice About Going to a Fuzzy Seminary – Fr. John Zuhlsdrof, WDTPRS?

Advent: God So Loved the World – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Prepare the Way for Simple Propers – Jeffrey Tucker, The Chant Café

Because of Francisco De Osuna and a Minor Miracle – Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

A Moral Crisis, Not a Money Crisis – Kevin Ryan, MercatorNet

Reflections on Our Lady of Guadalupe – Carmelite Sister, The Integrated Catholic Life

Flash Attack – Jim Mahoney, American Thinker

An Advent Meditation: “It’s Getting Late Very Early These Days” – Msgr. Charles Pope, AoW

Saint Maria di Rosa: The Saint Who Was Tormented by Her Conscience – Catholic Herald

John Duns Scotus, Our Next Saint & Doctor of the Church! – Taylor Marshall, Cntrbry Tls

The New Polytheism and its Tempter Idols – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

America Gets Its 1st Approved Apparition! – Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register

Vatican Responds to U.S. Embassy WikiLeaks – Edward Pentin, National Cthlc Register

Did John the Baptist Doubt that Jesus is the Christ? – Reginaldus, New Thlgcl Mvmnt

Did St. Thomas Aquinas Deny the Immaculate Conception? – Taylor Marshall, Cntrbry Tls

A Reflection on the Gospel of Third Sunday of Advent – Msgr. Ch. Pope, AoW

Cardinal Burke on Catholic Universities – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Poking at the Establishment Clause? – Marc DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice

Jesuit: “I Am A Religious Atheist” – Pat Archbold, National Catholic Register

I Respond to Rod Dreher – Mark Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

George Soros Anti-Catholic Group, Catholics4Equality, Infiltrate Georgetown – CNSB

The Joys 0f Boys – Danielle Bean, InsideCatholic

Michael Voris and Me…On His ‘Blast from the Past’ – Lisa Graas

‘The American River Ganges’ Rising – Melissa Musick Nussbaum & L. Martin Nussbaum, OTS

WikiLeaks: UKs Cthlc Ambassador to Vatican Upset Over Anglican Ordinariate – D.T., Tlgrph

Secrets of the Habit – Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Celebrating Christmas Single – Judy Keane, InsideCatholic

But They Were Consenting Adults! – Robert Stacy McCain, The American Spectator

Indiana GOP Governor Daniels: Pro-Life Legislation May Be a Burden – Matthew Archbold, CMR

Catholic Priest To Be Featured on PBS – Marcel LeJeune, Aggie Catholics

On Condom and AIDS, the Pope Has Come Down from the Cathedra – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Our Catholic Neighborhood – Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Tax-Funded Display of Ant-Covered Crucifix at the Smithsonian – Lisa Graas

Dawn Treader Insights from a C.S. Lewis Scholar – Peggy Bowes, Catholic Exchange

Beacons of Courage & Faith: The Catholic Martyrs of Lubeck – G. Simmermacher, NCRegister

Thoughts on the “Benedictine Arrangement” – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Interview with Narnia Movie Maker and Liam Neeson Controversy – John Nolte, Big Hollywood

One of Andrew Sullivan’s Lies About the Pope – Thomas Peters, American Papist

Will Dawn Treader Please the Base? – Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Literary Smackdown: Chaucer vs. Shakespeare – Joe Carter, First Thoughts

WikiLeaks: Vatican Promised to Lobby for Climate Change Agreement – Carol Glatz, Cthlc Hrld

Movie Review: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Steven D. Greydanus, Ntnl Cthlc Rgstr

Abortion Killed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal – Ed Stoddard, Reuters

Saint Juan Diego’s Miracle – Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Forgetting Our Lady of Guadalupe? – Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

Teaching Catholic Social Thought – Marc DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice

The Chants of Advent – Jeffrey Tucker, The Chant Café

Riding Roller Coaster with Jesus – Lisa Graas

The Cold War Pope: John Paul II – Mary Eberstadt, Hoover Institution

Dear Creative Minority Report, LifeSiteNews Can Fold for All I Care – Lisa Graas

Religious Persecution in North Korea – Doug Bandow, The American Spectator

Light of the World: Pope Benedict – Francis Phillips, MercatorNet

The Anglican Three Ring Circus – Father Dwight Longenecker, InsideCatholic

Spiritual Dryness: Our Joy is Not the End – Jennifer Fulwiler, Patheos

More Troubles in Red China – Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice

Canadian Anglicans Request Ordinariate – Anna Arco, Catholic Herald

The Coming Earthquake in the California Episcopate – California Catholic Daily

Orsi Contra Ecclesiam – Daniel Philpott, Contending Modernities

New Biography of Avery Cardinal Dulles – Christopher Blosser, The American Catholic

High Priestess Jefferts Schori, Pantheist? – Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion & Democracy

2000 Yr Old Tree Sprouting from Rod of Joseph of Arimathea Chopped Down – P.A., CMR

Andrew Sullivan and E.J. Dionne Full of Mockery, Ignorance, and Lies – Thomas Peters, AmP

LifeSiteNews in Trouble, Please Help Them – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Fail, Britannia: Spiritual Hollowness Overtakes the U.K. – George Weigel, First Things

Twelve Ways to Know God – Peter Kreeft, The Integrated Catholic Life

One More Year to Undo the Damage of the Spirit of Vatican II – Jeffrey Tucker, The Chnt Cf

Original Sin: Where Catholics and Orthodox Differ – Mark Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

The Numbers Game: Attendance at TLMs – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Was Aquinas a Proto-Protestant? – Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

Catholic Novels: What Are They? – Doctor Jeff Mirus, In Depth Analysis

This Intellectual is No Smarter than a Bag of Hammers: Richard Posner – John Breen, MoJ

Republicans Need to Remember That They Used to Stand for Human Dignity – Lisa Graas

Spirit of Vatican II, A Disaster for Gregorian Chant – Jeffrey Tucker, The Chant Café

Stitching in Limbo – John Zmirak, InsideCatholic

Arch. of DC: “Catholics for Equality”, “Not a Catholic Organization” – Thomas Peters, AmP

Need to Find a Catholic Church on the Go? There’s an App for You – Martin Finucane, BosG

Constitutional Landscape Architecture & Interior Design – Joseph Knippenberg, Frst Thghts

Wikileaks: Saudi King, Religious Police, Islam and Donkeys – Tom Heneghan, Reuters

How the Vatican Preps for Christmas – Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register

Seven Deadly Fallacies in Support of Abortion – Doctor Donald DeMarco, The Intgrtd Cth Lf

Tradition, Trust, and Commitment – Zac Alstin, MercatorNet

Through a Veil Darkly – Mark Shea, Catholic Exchange

Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, A Holy Day of Obligation! – Cth Enc.

Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Immaculate Conception and Eastern Orthodoxy – Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Who Crushes Satan’ Head in Genesis 3:15? (Mary or Jesus) – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

On The Fittingness & Faithfulness of the Immaculate Conception – Msgr. Charles Pope, AoW

Enmity with Satan and Full of God’s Life – Eric Sammons, The Divine Life

Pope: Mary’s Life Shows God’s Mercy is More Powerful than Evil – CNA/EWTN News

45 Years Ago Today, Second Vatican Council Closes – National Catholic Register

Because Dracula was Catholic? Oh My! – Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Euthanasia Makes People Live Longer – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Condom Use Is Moral? – Steve Kellmeyer, The Fifth Column

Monks, Unlikely Recording Stars – Jeffrey Tucker, The Chant Café

Blame The Church for Slowing Ted Turner’s Planet-Saving Goals? – Lisa Graas

Wanted: Catholic Exuberance – Father Bevil Bramwell OMI, The Catholic Thing

Class and Marriage: A Reverse – DarwinCatholic, The American Catholic

Religious Liberty Losing Worldwide – Doug Bandow, American Spectator

U.S. War Plans Ignored Religious Minorities – Mindy Belz, World Magazine

Britain Must Follow Russia & Urge Citizens to Have More Babies – Francis Phillips, Cth Hrld

An Archdiocese Spanning the Globe – George Weigel, On The Square

Why Liam Neeson Is No Smarter Than a Bag of Hammers – Mark Shea, Ntnl Cthlc Register

Planned Parenhood: Inside the Belly of the Beast – Paul Zummo, The American Catholic

More on Robert Orsi’s Anti-Catholicism – R.R. Reno, First Thoughts

Supreme Ct. Justice William Brennan & the Creation of a Right to Abortion – G.J. Sullivan, PD

Threads in Liberal Historiography – Marc DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice

Herding Cats on Sola Scriptura – Mark Shea, National Catholic Register

Drudgery or Delight — On the Proper Perception of Prayer – Monsignor Charles Pope, AoW

In Baghdad, an Encore of “Murder in the Cathedral” – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

In Pakistan, Christianity Earns a Death Sentence – Omar Waraich, TIME

Shock, Horror, Rage and Confusion – Michael Coren, MercatorNet

Nuns Favorite Nun Movies – Sister Helena Burns, Hell Burns

Catholic Orthodoxy Marches On Despite Bumps in the Road – Dave Hartline, The Amrcn Cthlc

Public School Teaching: Sacraments is “High Magic” – Steve Kellmeyer, The Fifth Column

“The Prisoner of the Vatican”: Pope Pius IX and the 19th Century – Pat McNamara, Patheos

Is Mary the Spouse of the Holy Spirit? – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

When Marriage Disappears – W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt, MercatorNet

De-Christianizing Aslan – Tim Drake, National Catholic Register

Some Old News from America – Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Ecumenism, San Francisco Holy Redeemer SSA Style – California Catholic Daily

“Licensing Parents” – Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice

Catholics Weigh in on Teens’ Excessive Use of Facebook, Texting – Marianne Medlin, CNA

Princess Diana Relative Could Become a Saint – BBC News

Sola Scriptura Rubbish as Dead Reckoning – Frank Weather, Why I Am Catholic