28 March AD 2024

LATE FRIDAY EDITION

Don’t Be Fooled By The New Normal – Fr. Bill Peckman at Roman Catholic Man
Our Priest Cancelled Our Wedding, So Who Else Can Validly Marry Us? – Cathy Caridi, J.C.L.
Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament – EWTN Poland
Homeschoolers are About to Dump Harvard – One Mad Mom
Applause Among Bishops Must Cease – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at Southern Orders
Transgender Madness Continues – Matthew J. Franck, Ph.D., at Public Discourse
What Sister Lucia’s Vision Of Fatima Looked Like (In Her Own Words) – Theresa Zoe Williams
After the Death of Its Grand Master, Tensions Resurface in the Order of Malta – Edward Pentin
The New ‘Fra Angelico’ of the Dominican Order: Fr. Marius J. Zerafa, O.P. – John Paul Sonnen
Donor Fatigue, Does It Really Exist? – Brice Sokolowski at CatholicFundraiser.net
Stop Praying Like You Mean It – Matthew Tan, Ph.D., at Ignitum Today
Pentecost: Seeing Red for All the Right Reasons (Catholic Mode Blog) – Meghan Ashley Styling
John Paul II Did Not Cover Up Abuse Says Official to His Cause for Sainthood – uCatholic
Reflections on the Protestant Revolution – Marek Jan Chodakiewicz at Crisis Magazine
Battling Porn: How to Know if You’re Addicted – Peter C. Kleponis, Ph.D., at The Catholic Gntlmn
Minnesota Bishops Defy Gov, Resume Public Masses: We Need To Be Treated Equally – ChPOP
Word of the Day: Woman – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Jasper via Magdalen College
Babies For Sale – Jennifer Lahl at First Things
9 Saints With Epic Beards – Theresa Civantos Barber at Aleteia
Bioethicist: Christians Doctors Must Be Forced To Do Abortions, Euthanize Patients – W Smith JD
New Templeton Prize Winner Criticises the ‘Scientism’ of Dawkins – Catholic Herald
A Unique Milanese Custom for the Feast of the Ascension – Gregory DiPippo at New Lit Mov
A Bit Messy? Those Familiar with Vespers of the Dead (Old Rite) – Fr. John Hunwicke
Surrogacy: A Problem of Human Dignity – Ines A. Murzaku at The Catholic Thing

POLITICS:
Bo-Bolsheviks & Soft Totalitarianism – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative

CHINESE CORONA VIRUS:
Church That Refused to Close During Lock Down Gets Burned Down – Fr. Z’s Blog
Protecting Grandma After the Pandemic: The Secret War on the Elderly
– Rick Becker at NC Rgstr
The Anti-Thing – David Warren at The Catholic Thing

BONUS NEWS LINKS:
A Double Standard for Islam? – William Kilpatrick at The Catholic World Report
Norma McCorvey Was Truly Pro-Life
– Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
Space Age Earthlings & the God of Creation – Maurice Williams at Catholic Stand
Persecution to Apartheid: A Very Short History of South African Catholicism – Andrew Cusack
Vatican Financial Reform Moves Steadily Along
– Edward Pentin at NC Register
Another Plague: The Abortion Experience – Sister Patricia Barnette at Crisis Magazine

Literature & Book Review(s):
Bleak House by Charles Dickens – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Jasper via Magdalen College
Month by Month with Mary – Pete Socks at Catholic Stand

Theater/Film:
In the Field of Reformation Fiction, Two Masterpieces Stand Out – Eamon Duffy at Cthlc Herald
Top Ten Civil War Movies For Memorial Day – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic