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THVRSDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

Transgender Suicides: What to Do About Them

by Chad Felix Greene

of Public Discourse

I was Once Transgender, Why I Think Trump Made Right Decision – Walt Heyer, The Stream
Fact Check: Are 15,000 Trans People Serving in the U.S. Military? – Holmes Lybrand
Our Cultural Waterloo – Carl R. Trueman, First Things
Reasons Transgender Accommodations Not Compatible w/Military Realities – Anderson Ph.D.
L’Osservatore Romano’s Latest Gambit: Preferring Culture to Truth? – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D.
Scientists Discover How Brain Controls Ageing, Manage to Slow It Down – Richard Faragher
Why Some People are Poorer than Others – Henry Hazlitt, Mises Institute
Another Charlie Gard? Father of Daughter Says Doctors are Leaving Her to Die – Micaiah Bilger
Black Pastor Slams Abortion: 1,800 Black Babies Killed in Abortion Each Day – Micaiah Bilger
Russia and the Rebirth of History – Glenn Davis Ph.D., The Imaginative. . .
Berkeley Ditches Richard Dawkins for Criticizing Islam, But Not Christianity – Benjamin Wiker
Reflections of a Conservative Democrat – Peter S. Rieth, The Imaginative. . .
Charlie Gard’s Mom Upset After Judge Says Charlie Will Die in Hospice – Steven Ertelt, Lf Nws
Trump to Nominate Sam Brownback to Religious Freedom Post – John Burger, Aleteia
When the ‘Right to Die’ Becomes the ‘Duty to Die’ – Fr. Michael Orsi, NC Register
UK and the Fight Over Legalized Assisted Suicide – Nancy Flory, The Stream
Families of Iran’s Prisoners Beg Congress to Advocate for Their Release – Matt Hadro, CNA
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VVEDNESDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

When Bishops Refuse to Ask the Right Questions on Why Seminaries are Empty

by Daniel Attard

of Regina Magazine

HIV, Gay Marriage, and the Crisis in Male Homosexuality – Joseph Sciambra
Quotes Suitable for Framing: Anthony Esolen – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The Am Catholic
Are There Animals in Heaven? – Nada Mazzei, Catholic Stand
When the Ghost of Gene Roddenberry Designs a Church – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
“Game of Thrones“ – Sister Helena Burns F.S.P., Hell Burns
Fr. de Souza Responds to Responses about Reconciliation Both Forms of Latin Rite – Fr. Z’s Blg
Ascension Roundtable: Do’s and Don’ts of Catholic Fundraising – Brice Sokolowski
Busting the Myth of the Tridentine Mass – Brian Williams, Liturgy Guy
On the Temptation and Fallacy of “On-Going Revelation” – Fr. James V. Schall S.J., The CWR
Why Do Monks Have Strange Haircuts? – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia
Anglican Patrimony Groups – Shane Schaetzel, Catholic in the Ozarks
Spadaro’s American Christian Straw Man – Stefano Gennarini, The Stream
How a College Mission Trip Inspired a Coffee Business – Catholic News Service via The CWR
The Idea of a Catholic University 50 Years After Land O’Lakes – Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis
lit: Catholicism for Young Adults – T.J. Burdick O.P., Dominican Institute
A Filipina Who Promoted the Feminine Genius before John Paul II Did – Simone Lorenzo

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VVEDNESDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

The Day the Music Died in the Muslim World

by William Kilpatrick, Ph.D.

of Crisis Magazine

Researchers Want Kindergarten Teachers to Train Kids in Perversion – Wil. M. Briggs Ph.D.
Charlie Gard is Dying, Like the West – John Zmirak Ph.D., The Stream
Neurologist Says Videos of Teenager Declared Brain Dead Show She is Still Alive – Mic. Bilger
Does UK Have World’s Best Health System? Only If You Ignore Outcomes – George Pickering
Italy Looms On The Eurozone’s Horizon – Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor via Forbes
Black Education Leaders Slam Teachers Union for Historic Racist Comparison – Amber Randall
Victims of the Affordable Care Act Have a Warning for Senate GOP – Fred Lucas, The Stream
How Much Money Each State Saves Thanks to Homeschooling – Annie Holmquist, Intllctl Tkt
So-Called Fact Checkers Keep Butchering Facts on Affordable Care Act – David Harsanyi
Secularists Still Deny Importance of Matrimony to Escape Poverty – W. Bradford Wilcox, CJ
Hospital Refuses to Allow Charlie Gard to Go Home – Dave Andrusko, LifeNews.com
To Get Science Agencies Back to Science We Need to Cut Their Funding – John Droz Jr.
Charlie Gard and Exercises in Medical Futility – Mary Pesarchick, Catholic Stand
Learning From Old China – Tanner Greer, The Scholar’s Stage
Media Covers Baby Orca’s Death More Than Fight to Save Charlie Gard’s Life – Katie Yoder, LN
As Senate Health Care Vote Nears, Will Pro-Life Provisions be Included? – CNA via The CWR

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TVESDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

When the Church Defames Her Priests

by Joseph R. Maher & David A. Shaneyfelt, J.D.

of Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Could Cardinal Sarah Bring an End to the Liturgy Wars? – Kathy Schiffer, NC Register
Striking Phenomena During This Centennial Year of Fatima – Fr. Richard Heilman, RCM
Dear Catholic Bloggers Who Defend Game of Thrones – One Mad Mom
Former Anglican Bishop Finds a Home in the Catholic Church – Jim Graves, The CWR
What Do We Know about the Regensburg Scandal? – Lucandrea Massaro, Aleteia
lit: Catholicism for Young Adults – T.J. Burdick O.P., Dominican Institute
Ascension Roundtable: Do’s and Don’ts of Catholic Fundraising – Brice Sokolowski
Quæritur: Can I Wear a Rosary Like Warriors Wear Weapons? – Fr. Z’s Blog
A World War Being Waged, Not with Weapons, but Ideas – Fr. Roger J. Landry, ICL™
In Communion Debate, Cogent Arguments All On One Side – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith, CH
Chaplains to the Zeitgeist – Tom Piatak, Crisis Magazine
A New Catholic Moment in the U.S.: Recap of the Catholic Convocation – Matthew E. Bunson
From Reversion to Reversion: How a Deist Became a Theist, Part I – Alex Wolke, Cthlc Stand
Helping the Children Victims of Divorce – Lynn Cassella-Kapusinski, NC Register
Is It Time for a New Land O’Lakes Statement for Higher Education? – Tom Hoopes, Aleteia
The Myth of Autonomy: Catholic Univs. Needed, Now More Than Ever – The Editors, NCReg

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TVESDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

CNN Offers Lyrical View of Islamic Spain, But are Crucial Details Missing From This Image?

by Julia Duin

of Get Religion

How the LGBT Movement Used Fake Science to Push Gay Marriage – Austin Ruse, The Stream
Richard Dawkins Banned; Not Ok to Criticize Islam, But Ok to Criticize Christianity – M. Brown
China Will Never Westernize, Ever, at Our Peril – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
The Unspeakable Evil of the Tennessee Eugenics Program – Matthew Walther, The Week
Is American English Replacing British English in the UK? – The Economist
How Would Christopher Dawson Redeem the West? – F. Russell Hittinger Ph.D., The Ima. . .
Why Demanding Equality In All Things Makes Us Narcissists – D.C. McAllister, The Federalist
NFP: It’s Not Just a Catholic Thing Anymore – Catholic News Agency via The Cthlc Wrld Rprt
Voter Fraud Database Tops 1,000 Proven Cases – Jason Snead and Emily Hall, The Stream
Current Arguments in Favor of Eugenics Seem Oddly Familiar – Matthew Archbold, NC Rgstr
UK Government ‘On the Verge of Dropping Catholic Schools Promise’ – Nick Hallett, CH
The Most Effective Way to Reduce Child Poverty – Rev. Ben Johnson, Acton Institute
To Fix Our Societal Ills, We Need To Focus On More Than Handouts – Gracy Olmstead
Charlie Gard’s Parents End Fight to Save Terminally Ill Baby’s Life – Catholic Herald
Charlie Gard’s Parents: Hospital Delay Made It Too Late for Experimental Treatment – Bilger
Official: China Crackdown on Catholic Church Will Go On – Catholic News Service via CH

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MONDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

Farewell to Catholic Answers

by Karl Keating

of Catholic Answers Magazine

The Pope’s Power – Marco Tosatti, First Things
New Prefect for CDF: Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. – Fr. Z’s Blog
Why Our Church is in Decline – Fr. Bill Peckman, Roman Catholic Man
Reactions to the Change of Prefect at CDF – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
Cardinal Müller Reacts to Dismissal in Interview with German Newspaper – Rorate Cæli
When Liberal Churches Have to Close – Peter Wolfgang, The Stream
Protestants Yearning for Jesus in the Eucharist – Peter J. Leithart, First Things
Card. Cupich & Tho. Rosica Host Pro-Gay Journalist at Chicago Theology on Tap – J. Sciambra
Fr. James Martin’s LGBT Book: Where It’s Strong, Where It Falls Short – Adelaide Mena, CNA
A Syllabus of Errors: An Update In Ninety-Five Sentences – James Soriano, Crisis Magazine
Catholic Bookstores in the Era of Amazon – Paul Senz, The Catholic World Report
Of Mice and Men, SHEEFs and Chimeras – Mary Pesarchick, Catholic Stand
The Jesus Option – Jeffrey Miller, The Curt Jester
Legatus at 30: Forming Catholic Leaders to Be Ambassadors for Christ – Patti M. Armstrong
Applying Six Offline Models to Online Evangelization – Fr. Matthew P. Schneider L.C., H&PR
Peter’s Pence: The Pope’s Official Charity, with Eighth Century Roots – Rome Reports

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MONDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

Now This: The Media’s Cardinal Pell Disinformation Campaign

by David F. Pierre Jr.

of TheMediaReport.com

Refusing An American Childhood – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
The Research Is In: Fathers are Not Replaceable – Lucandrea Massaro, Aleteia
Why Gen Y isn’t Following the Marriage-Parenting ‘Success Sequence’ – Liberty McArtor
Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud is a Real and Vast Problem – Jason Snead
Pro-Life Dems Meet w/ Party Chair, Told, “Sorry, We’re Pro-Abortion – Micaiah Bilger, Life Nws
Don’t Sell Your Soul Defending the Words of President Trump – Michael Brown Ph.D.
Why Do the Mainstream Media Ignore Scandals on the Left? – Rob Schwarzwalder, The Stream
Netherlands Considers Euthanasia for Healthy People – Emma Elliott Freire, The Federalist
Ramming the Ten Commandments: A Prophetic Picture of America – Michael Brown Ph.D.
The Catholic Saint behind the Jägermeister Logo – J-P Mauro, Aleteia
The New York Times Corrects Story Claiming 17 Intel Agencies ‘Agree’ on Russia – H. Lybrand
Why Has GOP Not Replace Obamacare Yet? Because They are Big-Govt Party Too – Mona Charen
Plans, Trans & Auto-Repeals: Pentagon Must Roll Back Obama’s Radical Military Agenda – Perkins
Despite Hype & Billions Spent, Embryonic Stem Cells Still Not Cured a Single Patient – Prentice
That Vital Analogy of Being – Fr. Mark A. Pilon, The Catholic Thing
The Humility that Jerusalem Brings – Robert Nicholson, First Things

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SVNDAY AFTERNOON CATHOLICA EDITION

The Most Straightforward Verse About the Eucharist in the Bible

by Tim Staples

of Catholic Answers Magazine

Father Scalia’s Primer on Handing Down the Faith Whole and Entire – Fr. C. John McCloskey
A Kicking and Screaming Conversion Story – Sarah Reinhard, National Catholic Register
The Poets Who Unexpectedly Lead Us to God – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald
Taking Aquinas Seriously – Edward Feser Ph.D., First Things
The Young Girl & the Sea: St. Thérèse of Lisieux – Brother Joseph M. Hagan O.P., Dmncn
The Fifth Beatitude: Mercy – Kevin Aldrich, Catholic Stand
Corpus Christi 2017 Photopost Part II & Part III – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement
Why You Should Make a Retreat – Marge Fenelon, National Catholic Register
The Power in a Penance – John Buri Ph.D., Homiletic & Pastoral Review
The 16th Century’s Saintly Six – Susan Klemond, National Catholic Register
Love and Joy are Found in the Sacred Heart, Not in Sin – Deacon Jonathan Howell, NC Rgstr
St. Benedict and the Spirit of Community – Jessica Archuleta, Catholic Exchange
What Kind of Thing is Authority? – John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine

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SVNDAY MORNING CATHOLICA EDITION

1,600-year-old Basilica Found Underwater in What was Ancient Nicaea

by Zelda Caldwell

of Aleteia

Why are “Ad Orientem” and Communion on the Tongue Preferable? – Fr. Z’s Blog
Catholicism is True and Denominationalism is Anti-Biblical – Dave Armstrong, NC Register
How This Pagan Philosopher Became a Saint – Laura Ricketts, epicPew
St. Teresa of Avila’s Demonic Experience that Proved the Power of Holy Water – ChurchPop
Catholic Parenting and the Protestant Reformation – Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing
St. Oliver Plunkett: The Last Priest Martyred at Tyburn – Stephanie Mann, Natl Cth Register
Considering Culpability – Ralph Martin Ph.D. S.T.D., Homiletica & Pastoral Review
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Begins At Conception, Part I – W.M. Briggs Ph.D.
St. Junípero Serra is a Great American Hero – Jim Graves, National Catholic Register
Developing a Canon, Schema for Art for Roman Rite, Part II, Pt. III, Pt. IV, Pt. V, & Pt. VI – BoC
Always Be Prepared to Defend Your Faith – Celeste Behe, National Catholic Register
Sweden’s First Cardinal Speaks With the Register – Edward Pentin, NC Register
William Webster’s Misunderstanding of Development of Doctrine – Dave Armstrong, BEfC
The Mature Witness of Child Saints – Brian O’Neel, National Catholic Register
Prayer, Theological Virtues & Spiritual Aridity – Part I – Dan Burke, Cthlc Spiritual Direction
The Tradition Behind Dressing Your Baby in White at Baptism – Amélie Hillairet, Aleteia

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Pray for Charlie Gard

The Vatican’s Statement On UK Baby Condemned To Die Is Frightening

by Daniel Payne

of The Federalist

Who’s Killing Charlie Gard? And Why Won’t the Vatican Help Him? – John Zmirak Ph.D.
Archbishop Paglia’s Statement on the Charlie Gard Case Is a Disgrace – Michael B. Dougherty
Vatican Criticized for “Cowardly” Statement After Court Says Hospital Can Kill Charlie – LN
UK Baby Charlie Gard Not Yet Pulled Off Hospital Life-Support – Kathy Ostrowski, Kansan. . .
Terri Schiavo’s Brother: Why Do Judges & Bureaucrats Decide if He Lives or Dies – S. Ertelt, LN
When the “Right to Die” Becomes a Death Sentence – Matthew Archbold, NC Register
Parents: We are Utterly Heartbroken, We Can’t Even Take Our Son Home to Die – C. Rousselle

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SATVRDAY AFTERNOON CATHOLICA EDITION

Do You See What Satan is Doing in Our Times?

by Father Richard Heilman

of Roman Catholic Man

Bebop Catholicism and the Charismatic Renewal – Edward Monti, Catholic Stand
Quæriture: Overhearing Someone Else’s Confession & Revealing What You Heard – Fr. Z’s Blog
Could a “Pope Emeritus” Under 80 Vote in a Conclave? – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
Kneeling for Communion – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment
Who Were the “Gnostic Gospels,” Authors & What Did They Believe? – Miguel Pastorino
Is There a Future for Catholic Doctors? – Fr. Robert McTeigue S.J., Aleteia
Fiction & Murder Most Foul: A Morbid Topic for Catholics? – John Herreid, The Cth Wrld Rprt
No Matter What Their Detractors Say, Convent Schools Provided a Great Education – F. Phillips
Why Is the Sacred Heart Burning? – Stephen Beale, Catholic Exchange
Three Feasts and Contraception – John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine
Why is the Blessed Virgin Mary Always Wearing Blue? – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia
The Catholic Pivotal Players are an Antidote to Our Vitriol – Jamey Brown, Catholic Stand
Catholic Rule of Faith & Binding Authority: Old Testament Analogies – Dave Armstrong, BEfC
Evangelization: Reaching Out to the Broken – Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange
Indulgences are Part of God’s Plan of Salvation – Angelo Stagnaro, National Catholic Register
The Marian Character of Ad Orientem Worship, Part V – Zachary Thomas, New Ltrgcl Mvmnt

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SATVRDAY AFTERNOON SÆCVLARIA EDITION

The Benedict Option & the Barbarians at the Gate

by John Horvat II

Amazing Pro-Life High School Students Stand Up to Planned Parenthood in Their School – LN
Pelosi: GOP Dishonoring God by Defunding Planned Parenthood – Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews.com
From The People To Empire; Or, Why We Are Doomed: Part III – Ianto Watt, Statistician to. . .
Detroit: Still Shrinking in 2016 – Mercatornet
An Orchestra Plays in the Middle of the Sea, Whales Attend the Concert – Daniel Esparza
What is the DUP? A Pro-Life Activist on What to Expect f/ UK’s New Govt – Fiorella Nash
Until the 1970s, NATO Thought It Would Lose a Conventional War With Russia – Robert Farley
A Lesson from China on Poverty Reduction and Inequality – Daniel J. Mitchell, The Stream
Regime Change in Iran Appears Increasingly Attainable – Ken Blackwell, The Stream
Myanmar Stumbling Over Non-Secession – Lwin Cho Latt, East Asia Forum
For U.S. & India, Convergence of Interests & Values – Narendra Modi, The Wall Street Journal

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