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Highlighted Catholic News & Punditry:
The Moral Clarity Of Christian Hostages In Their Homeland – Richard Ghazal/Providence
Ortega Regime Continues Crackdown after 12 Priests Deported – The Pillar
A Map of New Orleans Churches Set to Close or Merge Parishes – The Times-Picayune
Vatican Agrees to Review Closures of St. Louis Parishes Amid Restructuring – The Reg

Pope Francis’ Rehabilitation of the Sexual Predator Rupnik:
Destroying Fr. Rupnik’s Art, Restoring Trust & Living The Gospel – Fr. Patrick Briscoe
PopeWatch: Rupnik – Donald R. McClarey, Esq., at The American Catholic

Synod on Synodality News & Punditry:
The Four Groups Entirely Excluded by the Synod – Leila Marie Lawler at Happy Despite Them
The Synod Report: an Empty Box That Stinks – Tradition in Action
Synod Final Document: a Program of Subversion – Antonio Francés, Ph.D., at One Peter 5
Rearranging the Synod Table Chairs – Regis Martin, S.T.D., at Crisis Magazine
A First Look at the Synod’s Final Report (podcast) – Rob. Royal, Ph.D./Fr. Ger. E. Murray, J.C.D.
Pope’s Media Blackout Created a Shadowy Synod, with Its Own ‘Sideshows’ – Clemente Listi

Top-10 Catholic News & Punditry:
1.  A Saint to Help You Get Souls from Purgatory to Heaven – Annabelle Moseley at Aleteia
2.  Tips from the Monastery – Jacqueline St. Clare at Catholic Stand
3.  Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, M.Sp.S., of San Antonio: God Is Not OmnipotentTACthlc
4.  The Waning Days of a Progressive Papacy Where No One is Interested in It – Fr. A. McDonald
5.  Largest Christian Univ. Fined $38M for Misleading Students on Tuition Costs – AP via NY Post
6.  Elderly Illinois Priest’s Life Savings of Over $60K Stolen in PayPal Scam – ABC7 Chicago
7.  Three Simple Things I Wish I Had Known About Dating – Claire Collins at Radiant Magazine
8.  Mindfulness Is Not Prayer – Randall B. Smith, Ph.D., at The Catholic Thing
9.  Dealing with Anti-Catholicism – Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison at What We Need Now
10.  A Catholic on Reformation Day – Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review

Best of the Rest of Catholic News & Punditry:
Nuchurch’s “Counter-Syllabus” of Errors – Fr. David J. Nix at Pilgrim Priest
Not Progressive, Not Conservative – Fr. Samuel Keyes, Ph.D., at Catholic Answers Magazine
How to Bring Peace to the World? Start with Sacramental Confession, Cardinal Says – CNA
Solemnity Of All Saints – Dan Burke at Catholic Spiritual Direction
Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago – Amy Welborn at Charlotte was Both
Vote For Pro-life Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, He Signed Bill That Overturned Roe – Life News

Indiscriminate News & Punditry:
Libertarian Horror Movies – Donald R. McClarey, Esq., at The American Catholic
Canadian Death Cult – Michael Bonner at City Journal
Cold War Satellite Finds Nearly 400 Roman Forts in the Middle East – Ars Technica
The Great ‘green Energy Transition’ That Wasn’t – Stephen Moore at Hot Air
Anheuser-Busch Sales in US Fall Over 13% in Q3 – Lisa Fickenscher at New York Post
Frantz Fanon, Oracle Of Decolonization – Ell Lake at The Free Press
The Great Covid Cover Up (video) – Matthew Archbold at Creative Minority Report

War in the Middle East:
Hitler in Hell Smiles – Donald R. McClarey, Esq., at The American Catholic
Maps: Tracking the Attacks in Israel & Gaza – The New York Times
Hamas Attack on Israel Elevated Terror Risk to US to Whole Other Level: FBI – WE

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