17 May AD 2024

THVRSDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Headline Catholic News & Punditry:
A Fierce War Rages for Your Soul, Fr. Chad Ripperger & Friends Will Help – FullnessOfTruth.org

Top-10 Catholic News & Punditry:
1.  Quæritur: Is There Something Wrong In Rome? – Fr. Z’s Blog
2.  The “Theological Time Bomb” – Joe Tevington at Catholic Stand
3.  Cologne Cathedral Has Cancelled Its Famous Spires – Zoltán Kottász at The European. . .
4.  Furor Erupts in Brazil after Archbishop Gives Holy Communion to Muslim Sheikh – Crux
5.  Teilhard de Chardin: A Key to Understanding Our Jesuit Pope – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
6.  Where Catholicism All Went So Horribly Wrong: Go-Go Masses 1969 – Catholic Conclave
7.  Must Read Catholic Books – The Catholic Philadelphian at Catholic365 Blog
8.  A Fierce War Rages for Your Soul, Fr. Chad Ripperger & Friends Will Help – Fullness Of Truth
9.  A Crisis of Parenting is the Root Cause of America’s Fast Secularization – Intellectual Takeout
10.  Only 11% Catholics in So. Korea, Catholic Priest Drama is #1 Show – The American Catholic

Next-10 Catholic News & Punditry:
11.  The Ulma Family Bible Had Three Verses Underlined – Kathleen N. Hattrup at Aleteia
12.  How to Simply Achieve Noble Beauty, Simplicity & Romanitas in Altar Design – Ltrgl Arts Jrnl
13.  The Shrine of Blessed Stanley Rother in Oklahoma City – New Liturgical Movement
14.  The Fine Art of Craft Cigar Smoking – The Catholic Gentleman
15.  Protestant Business Exec Becomes On-Fire Catholic, & More Links – Tito Edwards/NC Rgstr
16.  Movie of the Week: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D.
17.  American Despotism – Newt Gingrich at The American Spectator
18.  Vivek Ramaswamy: Are Christians Ready for a Hindu Presidential Candidate? – Bitter Winter
19.  When Serious Mental Illness Becomes a Leftist Commandment – The American Catholic
20.  Dr. Robert Hickson RIP – Brian McCall at Catholic Family News

Best of the Rest of Catholic News & Punditry:
Why Some Hindu Nationalists Want to Rename India – Anna Gordon at Time Magazine
The Pseudo-Primitive, Pseudo-Childlike Art of Rupnik – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Crisis
A Collision of Civilizations – James Soriano at Crisis Magazine
Synod on Synodality: A Poem by ChatGPT – Fr. Z’s Blog
Timeless & Timely: A Defense of the Great Books – J. Walter Sterling at Public Discourse
Potential Agreement Reached in Bitter Syro-Malabar Liturgical Dispute – Nirmala Carvalho/Crux
Updates on the Political Landscape from a Catholic Perspective – Catholics For Catholics
Priest Heads to Ulma Family Beatification: ‘Saintly Figures So Close to My Family Tree’ – The Reg
Knowing Your Shape: Which of the Five are You? – M. Ashley Styling, a Catholic Wardrobe Stylist
Le Pen Tops Macron in Recent Poll – Tamás Orbán at The European Conservative
Music from the Book of Job – Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement
Death Date of Ulma Family Seen as Significant (Interview & Photos) – Aleteia
The Philosophical Approach to God; Book Excerpt – Pat Flynn via Ignitum Today
ZdK v. AfD: A New Battle Line in the Church in Germany – Luke Coppen at The Pillar

Indiscriminate News & Punditry:
PopeWatch: Bingo! – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic
US Visit of Relics of Saint Jude the Apostle from September 2023 to May 2024 – Fr. Z’s Blog
UK Challenger 2 Tank Destroyed in Battle for the First Time Ever – Chris Thomlinson
DOJ Convicts Proud Boys of Rioting for the Wrong Side – The American Catholic

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