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In U. S. Debut, Rome’s “Grand Inqusitor” On the Ordinariates – Rocco Palmo

Abp. Alexander Sample Interviewed by The Oregonian, Well Done – Fr. Z’s Blog

What Teaches the Greatest Wisdom: Poetry, Prose or Beautiful Art & Music? – NLM

Philly Catholic Schools Get the ‘Miracle of Memphis’ – Peter Jesserer Smith, Daily Regstr

How to Establish a Pro-Life Framework – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Loaves, Fishes and God and His Work – Chelsea Houghton, Ignitum Today

Life is Probably a Gift – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Blessed John Henry Newman: Our Guide & Inspiration – Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine

Is Every Act in Mortal Sin Another Sin? – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Help us Say “Thank You” to our Faithful Priests and Religious! – Daniel Burke

The Plan to Save Catholic Schools – Joe Carter, Acton Institute/PowerBlog

Why Having a Prayer Rule is a Great Idea – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Always Be Catholic – Larry D, Catholic Stand

No Final Agreement Yet Between the Holy See and Israel – Edward Pentin, Daily Reg

Pro-Life Movement is Quietly Winning the Abortion Battle – Stacie Kuhns, Life News

The Preferential Option for the Poor – R.R. Reno, First Things

Natural Rights are More Than a Rhetorical Device – Aeon J. Skoble, Pileus

Is Sweden a Red State? – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

The Reason That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Donald McClarey, T.A.C.

Subsidiarity, Foreign and Domestic – Joseph Wood, The Catholic Thing

The Church Building as a Sacred Place – Duncan Stroik, T.I.C.

Gay Conversion Therapy – Joshua Gonnerman, On the Square / First Things

Health as an Excuse to End Privacy – Wesley Smith, NRO

A Proper Core Curriculum is Political – John Alvis, T.I.C.

President Obama and the 2nd Amendment – Grover Cleveland, Pileus

iPotty – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Is a Concealed Carry Law Necessary? – Jake Tawney, T.A.C.

Obama’s Million-Dollar Ambassadors – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Unemployment Rate Ticks Up To 7.9% – Lonely Conservative

A Russian Family Alone for 40 Years – Mike Dash, Smithsonian

U. S. T. (Houston) to Co-host Pontifical St. Thomas Aquinas Conference – Tim Drake

Communion Propers for Lent – Richard J. Clark, The Chant Café

What Kind of Pro-Life Generation Are We? – Amanda Hamilton, As We Spin Around T. . .

Pressure from Islamic Radicals Driving Catholic Religious Out of Eastern Libya – Cth Cltr

Twitter Censors Black Pro-Lifers Blasting N. A. A. C. P. on Abortion – Steven Ertelt, LN

Catholic Answers is Blogging! – Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

LOL Saints Shuts Down – LOL Saints

Usus Antiquior Magazine Articles Now Online – Augustinus, Rorate Cæli

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Out of the Closet: Wearing Your Cassock – Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

Bishop Sample and the Future of Catholic Music – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Christians and Muslims in Lebanon – Sandro Magister, La Repubblica/www.chiesa

No Babies, No Future: The Latest Evidence – Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine

Same-Sex ‘Marriage’, Assisted Reproductive Technologies & the Family – Anna Williams

Compendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum – Gregory DiPippo, NLM

Celebrating Lent with A Homemade Candle – Hannah M., Catholic Sistas

Seven Things You Should Know About Creation – Micah Murphy, Truth & Charity

The Miraculous Healing Power of Indulgences – Jim Cole, Catholic Lane

Rome is the Apostolic Throne: 24 Quotes from Alexandria, Antioch. . . – H. H. Ambrose

Pro-lifers Urge John Kerry to Support Human Rights – Carl Bunderson, EWTN News

E. W. T. N. Pressing on in Face of Latest H. H. S. Notice – Michael Warsaw, Daily Regstr

The Dominican Nuns: First American Foundations – Br. John Maria Devaney OP

Pope Benedict XVI Gives New Cardinals Their Curia Positions – Catholic News Agency

The Edict of Milan in the History of Liberty – Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute/PowerBlog

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First Latin-Italian Hand Missal Published – Gregor Kollmorgen, New Liturgical Movement

Edmund Adamus on the Ordinariate – Father Ed Tomlinson’s Blog

Have You Spoken Out for Marriage as Bishops Asked Us to Do? – A Reluctant Sinner

Are the Swiss Bishops Guilty of Supporting Abortion? – Editors, LifeSiteNews

Proto Ordinariates – Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma

Cameron Said He Would Not Redefine Marriage – Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic. . .

Sir David Attenborough – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Marianne Mag (Frnc.): The Non-Debate on Homosexual Parenting vs. Equality – R. López

Is Vienna’s Cathedral Pastor a Freemason? – Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

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Egyptian Pope:”My Countrymen Must Love Each Other” – CBN News

Guest Post: Holy Father (An E. Orth. Christian Looks West) Pt. 1 – MONKROCK

Catholic Catechism: Breathing With Both Lungs – J. Andrew, PoSE (EC)

Orthodox Bishops Weigh in on Roe V. Wade and Abortion – Red Riv. Orth. (OX)

Vladimir Soloviev: Convert to Russian Catholicism – The Holy Unia (EC)

St. Bridget of Kildare – Fr. Peter Preble (OX)

Why God Does Not Love Us All the Same – Ric Ballard, ECSR (EC)

On the Church Council – Again and Again (OX)

The Great Confusion – Fr. Vasile, Gladsome Light Dialogues (OX)

Silence – John R. P. Russell, Blog of the Dormition (EC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

The Hermit Who Lived With Snakes: St. Verdiana – Spiritual Life, Catholic Herald

The Nature of Mystery – John Morgan, Catholic Stand

L. A. Archbishop Relieves Cardinal Mahony of Duties – Catholic News Agency

St. Brigid of Ireland – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

Legacies: Mother Angelica or Cardinal Mahony – Patrick Archbold, Ntnl Cthlc Register

Bruce Guernsey: Practicing Poet, Lapsed Catholic – Katherine Infantine, First Things

Waiting for the Hat to Drop: Card. Mahony Relieved of Duties in L. A. – Fr. Z’s Blog

Harper Opposes Probe of 491 Babies Left to Die After Abortions – Steven Ertelt, Lf Nws

Cardinal Mahony Bearing Witness – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

Bishop Defends Protestant Law School Against Attacks by Homosexualists – P. B. Craine

We Were Right About Cardinal Mahony – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

H. H. S. Mandate Revision Still Forces Catholics to Fund Contraception – Matt Archbold

Cardinal Mahony Relieved of Public Duties – Archbishop José Gomez, Daily Register

Catholic Politicians Betray the Faith Again – Matthew Hennessey, Crisis Magazine

L. A.: “There Is No Excuse”, Archbishop Gomez Goes Defcon 1 – Rocco Palmo

Abp Gomez Does The Right Thing – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Jobs of the Future – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Food Stamps for the 1% – Mike, Lightning War

Notes From A Total Amateur – Pete Spiliakos, PoMoCon / First Things

Reflections of a Former Fetus – Jennifer Morse, Public Discourse

Jar Jar, The Ruin Of A Universe – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

US Youth Immobilized by Student Debt – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

David Cameron, Euro-Skeptic? – Peter Whittle, City Journal

Self-Interest Wins Out Over Society – Anne Sorock, Legal Insurrection

“Establishment Clause Appearances” Decision – Marc DeGirolami, MoJ

Islam and Constitutionalism – Sohail Hashmi, Liberty Law Forum

Response One: Human Flourishing – David French

Response Two: The Protection of Fundamental Rights – Asma Uddin

Response Three: Formidable Philosophical Obstacles – Robert Reilly

A Positively, Final Appearance – Michael Dirda, American Scholar

The Second Amendment and Racism – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Legal Challenge Filed Against New York’s SAFE Act – LoCo

Fox’s Decline – Rod Dreher, T. A. Cn.

Indiana Advocacy, Political, or Journalist Groups? – Eugene Volokh, Volokh

Illinois Pension Costs Choking Off Investments – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Damocles’s Sword of Sequester – Scott Galupo, T. A. Cn.

Next Recession Belongs to Obama – Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Big Pharma: Crooks or Benefactors? – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Let Your Teens Be Adults – Anna Williams, First Thoughts / First Things

Fraudulent Electronic Relationships – Eugene Volokh, Volokh

ObamaCare: What a Deal! – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

What Sort of Despotism? – Alexis de Tocqueville, T. I. C.

A Very Personal Relativism – Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

Sex Trafficking at the Super Bowl – Anna Broadway, On the Square / First Things

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Forty Hours Devotion in New York City – Kenneth J. Wolfe, Rorate Cæli

Cardinal Arinze to Discuss Year of Faith at Christendom College – Tim Drake, CNS Blog

2013 Catholic Parish Website of the Year Contest – Clare Zajicek, Catholic Tech Talk

Sacred Liturgy & Sacred Music Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota – Shawn Tribe, NLM

The Age of Apathy – Chelsea Houghton, Catholic Stand

Boy Scouts of America Needs to Hear from You! – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

LA: Abp. Gomez Orders Reduced Role of Card. Mahony, Auxiliary Bishop Resigns – LAT

MPs Call Police after 491 Babies Born Alive from Failed Abortions, Left to Die – LSN

Was the Mass of Padre Pio Equal to the Mass of Fr Marcial Maciel – Dr. Taylor Marshall, CT

Crossing the Channel: The Witness of St. Edmund Campion – Th. M. Doran, The CWR Blg

Baltimore Ravens’ Matt Birk, a Catholic, Stays Centered on Christ – Trent Beattie

God, Science, and the Pro-life Movement – Elizabeth Hoxie, Ignitum Today

An Office Hymn for Candlemas: Let Zion’s Bridal Room Be Clothed – Kathleen Pluth

Church Militant: Forward March! – Jay Boyd PhD, Catholic Stand

A Day of Salvation that Wasn’t: On Reading Catholic Writers – Dr. Jf. Mirus, Cthlc Cltr

Quæritur: Blessing Chickens – Fr. Z’s Blog

Canon Lawyer: Bishop has Warned National Catholic Reporter – Carl Bunderson, CNA

The Heresy of Our Day, Bad can Do Good – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

The Latest From the “Pius Wars” Front – Michael Coren, The Catholic World Report

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are Not Human Rights – Austin Ruse, C-FAM

And Now, the Boy Scouts of America Must Decide – Rod Dreher

Reflections of a Former Fetus and Former Incubator – Jen. R. Morse, Public Discourse

Female Parishioners Upset Men Not Asked To Set Altar Before Mass – Eye of the Tiber

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“The Lourdes of Germany”, Our Lady of Altötting – Kathy Schiffer, P/Seasons of Grace

Our Lady of Czestochowa Icon Touring Spain – Catholic News Agency

Solemn Pontifical Mass in Salzburg for the Feast of St. Sebastian – Shawn Tribe, NLM

UK: Clergy, Legal Experts Doubt Church Protections in ‘Gay Marriage’ Law – H. White

English & Welsh Bishops Briefing on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ to Parliament – Catholic Herald

Turkish Parliament Discusses Turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque – The Eponymous Flwr

Tales from Londonistan: Stranger In A Strange Land, Her Own – Rod Dreher

Move to Impeach French AG on Order to Naturalize Children of Homosexuals – R. López

Boyz II Men & Russia’s Demographic Dive – Matthew Schmitz, First Things/Frst Thoughts