September 28, 2011

9/11, Benedict XVI and Regensburg – George Weigel, Crisis Magazine

Christian Provocations – Joseph Bottum, Hudson New York

Iranian Pastor May Soon Be Executed for Refusing to Deny Christ – Wesley J. Smith, FT

Iranian Pastor Not Getting Coverage in U.S. – Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Pakistan are Bronze Age Savages in Their Treatment of Christians – Mark Shea, CAEI!

Christian “Misspelled Muhammad’s Name in Class, Let’s Kill Her!” – Mauro Pianta, LS

Turkish Schools Describe Christians as Traitors in High-School Textbook – Tancred, EF

What Every Catholic Needs to Know about Funerals – Brian Fraga, Our Sunday Visitor

Sociology and the Life of Virtue – Aaron Urbanczyk, The Catholic Thing

Does Council of Nicea Reject Women’s Ordination to Diaconate? – Joe Heschmeyer, SP

Atheism and Multiple-Choice Truth – Frank Cronin, Daily Register

There are Only Two Things that Really Progress – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Scalia on Natural Law – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Atheist Dogma – Mark Shea, National Catholic Register

“Enough of the Unnecessary Recourse to the Death Penalty” – Lorenzo Albacete, Ilsssdr

160 Catholic Scholars Call for End to Death Penalty in America – Card Newm Soc/Cmps Nts

Culture of Life: Entitlement v. Gratitude – Melanie Baker, HLI America

A More Visible Witness – Trista Garttner, VirtuousPla.net

In Wealthy Germany, the Church Should Become Poor! – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Is It Wrong for Christians to Own Mansions? – Jennifer Fulwiler, National Catholic Register

The Gospel & the Origin of Christian Monasticism – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

The Tyburn Tree Bears Abundant Fruit – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

St. Wenceslas, Martyr – Mary Kochan, Catholic Lane

The Crown of St. Wenceslas – John Whitehead, Once I Was A Clever Boy

Time for USCCB to Stop Private Negotiations & Catechize in Public? – Motley Monk, TAC

Serious Discrepancies in USCCB’s Derogations from the GIRM concerning EMHCs – Fr. Z

The Coming Persecution – Kevin O’Brien, StAR

Fr. Pavone & Fr. Corapi: There’s No Conspiracy – Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Fr. Pavone: Slouching Towards Honesty – Steve Kellmeyer, The Fifth Column

Stand By Your Man – Julie Robison, VirtuousPla.net

Christianophobes: Herod’s Modern Offspring – The Ordinary Catholic, Peter’s Barque

Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood Abortion Business – Steven Ertelt, Lf Nws

Investigating Federal Funding, Non-Reporting of Sex Trafficking – Th. Peters, CV/AmP

Promised Objectivity: Americans Receive P.P. Ideology – Arland K. Nichols, Pblc Dscrs

The Myth of the Personally Pro-Life Catholic – Matthew Archbold, National Cthlc Register

Bp. Cupich is No Friend of the Pro-Life Movement in Washington State – Mark Shea, CAEI!

Breaking the spell of Planned Parenthood – Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

The Growing Aversion to Abortion – Steve Chapman, Crisis Magazine

Bishops Speak Out Against HHS Mandate As Deadline Looms – Marianne Medlin, CNA

People are So Rude in the Abortion Debate – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

The Pastoral Response to Homosexuality – Melinda Selmys, First Things/On the Square

Observers See Homosexual Agenda Threatening Religious Freedom – Kevin J. Jones, CNA

Booing the Homosexual Soldier – Tom Hoopes, Catholic Vote

Defending Marriage from Redefinition – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Clarifying Marriage: Two Men Not a Marriage Make – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, SOMH

Fr. Ray Blake under attack from Homosexuals – Fr. Tim Finigan, THOC

How Homosexuals are Taking Over Schools and How to Counter Them – Catholic Knight

The Crown and the Cross: Royal Families and Their Religion – Rome Reports

The Liturgy Answers the Problem of Evil – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Social Justice is About Redemption, Not Mandating Contraception – Tom Crowe, CV

Natural Family Planning with a “Contraceptive Mentality”? – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, NTM

Intact Families = School Success – EWTN News

Madrid Profits over $200 million from World Youth Day – Catholic News Agency

A Catholic Call to Abolish the Death Penalty – Tobias Winright, Catholic Moral Theology

When Bush put JP2’s Letter on the Side Table without Opening It – Gerard O’Connell, LS

Is Catholic New Media Really Effective? – Brandon Vogt, The Thin Veil

Catholic in the NFL: A Philip Rivers Interview – Eric Porteous, Life Teen

The Maccabeats – Allie Terrell, VirtuousPla.net

The Origin and Spread of Chant (in French) – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café