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Syrian Christians Attacked Ahead of Presidential Speech – S. J. Bos, WNews

Going Under the Knife: Prayers Needed – Ad-Orientem (OX)

“It Is Enough For Me To Stand Here At Your Feet” – Gabriel’s Message (OX)

Secrets Your Pastor Can’t Share in a Sermon – Good Guys Wear Black (OX)

How a Maronite Nun Takes First Vows – Byzantine, Texas (OX)

Culture and Ethnicity in the Church in the U.S. – Blog of the Dormition (EC)

Elder Sergei of Vanves on Prayer – Orthodox Way of Life (OX)

Mantra Madness – Ric Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal (EC)

“When We Speak of Christ, We Must Start With Christ” – Fr. N. Kim, JtO (OX)

Hippolytus: Discourse on the Holy Theophany – Mystagogy (OX)

Christ the Bridegroom Monastery – Ramblings of a Byz Catholic (EC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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Interview: Singer-Songwriter Audrey Assad – Bonnie Engstrom

How to Have a Good and Stable Choir – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

The Star of Bethlehem – Donald DeMarco, Crisis Magazine

Three Epiphany Gifts – Jacob Tawney, Roma Locuta Est

Unborn Babies Learn Language in Womb, as Early as Ten Weeks – Steven Ertelt, Lif Nws

Will 2013 Bring Some Relief for Chinese Catholics? – Fr. Z’s Blog

Pius XII, Lifesaver – Bill Loughlin, Daily Register

Aphorisms – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

T. S. Eliot Reads “Journey of the Magi” – Kathy Schiffer, Patheos/Seasons of Grace

The Commonitory of St. Vincent of Lérins – Bryan Cross, Called to Communion

You Have Come & Revealed Yourself, O Inaccessible Light – Carl E. Olson, The CWR Blog

As With Gladness, Men of Old – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Drive-Thru Confessions Huge Hit In Local Parish – Eye of the Tiber

Catholic  Healthcare Company Win Injunction Against H. H. S. Mandate – Jn. Jalsevac

The Relationship of Faith & Suffering – Sr. Benedicta Marie OCD, Integrated Cthlc Life™

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The Price of Beauty and Recollection: The Walk-Through – Kathleen Pluth, Chant Café

The Lady So Ascetic She Never Took a Bath Unless She was Dangerously Ill – Spiritual Lif

St. John Neumann – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

2012 Boston Archdiocese Year in Review – Boston Catholic Insider

Next Front in Religious Liberty Fight: Military Chaplains & “Ceremonies”? – Tom Crowe

Normalizing Pedophilia – Wesley J. Smith, Human Exceptionalism

Bob Bork: The Lingering Presence – Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

New Poll is Wrong, Americans Don’t Want Assisted Suicide – Alex Schadenberg, Lif Nws

The Metaphysical Mystery of the Buddleja Americana – Marc Barnes, Pths/Bad Catholic

Just Kill It – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork – Paul Kengor, The CWR Blog

MSNBC: Catholic Church & Castro in Cahoots to ‘Eradicate’ Homosexuals? – Hil. White

JFK’s ‘Speech on Faith’, The Conscience: False Dichotomy Part II – Fr. G. Goodrum STL

Spengler’s Ominous Prophecy – The German Egyptian, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Two Views – Crisis Magazine

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Tolkien’s Catholicism – Joseph Pearce, StAR

Book Review: The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel – Mary Hartwell, Int Ct Lf™

Pocket-Sized Diurnale Romanum – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Catholic Relief Services Cheers More Federal Spending – Restore-DC-Catholicism

Announcing the Feasts – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right – Jason Hall, Ignitum Today

What Hate Really Means – John Zmirak, National Catholic Register

‘A Review of Common Fallacies that Weaken Arguments – Msgr. Charles Pope, AOW

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The Intellectual Rigor of the Women’s Ordination Conf. – Jeffrey Miller, The Curt Jester

A Canonical Look at Dorothy Day’s Causa – Dr. Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

Something To Be Dealt With in the Churches, Urgently & Forcefully – Steve Jalsevac

Hobby Lobby CEO Pens Sad Letter On Loss of Religious Freedom – S. Ertelt (link fixed)

The Costs of Same-Sex Marriage – Carson Holloway, Catholic Vote

After Newtown Shooting, Bishops Call for Cultural Changes – Michelle Bauman, CNA

Life Is All About Sex – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Catholic Relief Service President Reflects on First Year on the Job – Brian Fraga, OSV

Jon Shields on the Collapse of Pro-Abortion Politics – Matthew Schmitz, First Things

How Same-Sex Marriage Suffocates Freedom (Part II) – Bryce J. Christensen, Crisis Mgzn

The Devil Witnessing for Christ – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

Can Neurosurgeons Go to Heaven? – Tomas Bogardus, First Things/On The Square

“Kill Me” Living Will Coming to Australia? – Wesley J. Smith, Human Exceptionalism

Helping Young Families: The Church’s Job? – Leah Jacobson, Ignitum Today

Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives – Br. Raymund Snyder OP, Dominicana

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To Avoid Causing Scandal, Sr. Wendy Should Perhaps Stick to Art – Francis Phillips, CH

Russia’s Unholy New Alliance between Orthodox and State – Cathy Young, Reason

Working on Sunday – Mark Movsesian, First Things/First Thoughts

The Tablet and the Elephant: the “Soho Masses” – Fr. Z’s Blog

2013: A Year of Decision for Europe – George Friedman, MercatorNet

Huge Opposition Mounts Against Gay ‘Marriage’ in U. K. – Peter Saunders, LifeSiteNews

U. K. Anglican Ordinariate Given ‘Beautiful’ London Parish – E. W. T. N. News

Vladimir Putin At Orthodox Church – Rod Dreher

U. K. Christian Doctors: Stop Liverpool Care Pathway Abuses – Dr. Peter Saunders, LN

Bad Care is Inevitable in the N. H. S. – Harry Mount, The Daily Telegraph

Win a Free Trip to Rome in This Exciting Competition – Richard Collins, Linen

Warwick Street. . . – Joanna Bogle, Auntie Joanna Writes

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Saturday, January 5: Hobby Lobby Shopping Day – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

If You’re In Chicago Tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 5 – Arlene Oost-Zinner, The Chant Café

Don’t Water Down the March for Life With Other Issues – Jill Stanek, Life News

Meet the Authors of What Is Marriage? – Matthew J. Franck, First Things/First Thoughts

‘The Soho Gay Mass Has Gone: What About Sydney? – Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Crdnl George Rallies the Faithful to Protect Marriage in Illinois – Thm. Peters, CV/AmP

Nine Things You Need to Know About Epiphany – Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register

Urgent: Hobby Lobby Needs Your Support! – Stephen Kokx, Catholic Vote

Syrian Conflict Could Worsen Exodus – Catholic News Agency

St. Theophan the Recluse and Facebook – J. Andrew, Prayer of St. Ephrem (EC)

This Christmas, Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Asking For Respect – Globe & Mail

Inspiration: Bl. Kuriakos Elias OCD – Theresa, My Desert Heart (RC)

St. John of Kronstadt on Despair – Pravmir (OX)

Miracles of St. Nikephoros the Leper – John Sanidopolous, Mystagogy (OX)

Amid Instability in Egypt, Coptic Christians Flee to U.S. – B. Wallace, NPR

Qambel Maran: Syriac Chants From South India – M. T. Antony, NSC Network

Fr. Seraphim Rose: Forming the Soul: Spirit, Soul and Body – Pravmir (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

Dorothy Day: A Saint to Transcend Partisan Politics – Leslie Fain, Catholic World Report

New Icon in the Style of the St. Alban’s Psalter – David Clayton, New Liturgical Mvmnt

The Cause of America’s Declining Birthrate – Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine

Madeleine Choir School Alumn at Vatican Midnight Mass – A. Oost-Zinner, Chant Café

Who Is a Mother When Same-Sex “Marriage” Arrives? – William M. Briggs

Response to UN’s Claim of Access to Contraception as Basic Human Right – Sr. R. Mirkes

Biblical Guidelines to Christian Cheerfulness – Russell Shaw, OSV Newsweekly

C. C. H. D. Defends Grants After Pro-Life Groups Issue Exposé – Johanna Dasteel, LSN

Gregorian Chorale Makes the Vocations Grow – Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

C. C. H. D. = Clueless Catholics in Hard Denial – Restore-DC-Catholicism

Media Almost Silent on Hobby Lobby Battle Against H. H. S. Mandate – Matthew Philbin

S. S. P. X. Bp. Fellay Calls Jewish People ‘Enemies of the Church’ – Carol Glatz, Cth Hrld

Roe at 40: Court’s Failure to Address Question of Unborn’s Moral Status – F. Beckwith

Christopher West’s New Book & Mega-Giveaway! – Brandon Vogt, BrandonVogt.com

Friendship in the Ordinary – Wesley Hill, First Things/First Thoughts

Born That Way? – Joshua Gonnerman, On the Square / First Things

Russell Kirk’s Challenge to Liberalism – Bradley Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

Humans “Exceptional” As “Justifying Animal” – Wesley J. Smith, Human Exceptionalism

Is The Nuclear Family The Problem? – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

What “Incontrovertible” Really Means – Leslie Eastman, Legal Insurrection

The State of American Liberal Education – Peter Lawler, Imaginative Conservative

State Contraceptive Mandates – Joseph Knippenberg, First Thoughts / First Things

‘Easy Platitudes’ on Race, Crime – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Neighboring States Poach California Jobs – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Geithner To Resign Before Debt Ceiling Fight – Lonely Conservative

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An Abundance of Prayers for Jennifer Fulwiler – Jeanette De Melo, Ntnl Cthlc Register

Jesuit to Lecture on Thomas Aquinas at U. S. T. (Houston) – Mt. Archbold, The CNS Blog

Submissions to Sacred Music Invited – Jennifer Donelson, The Chant Café

Graduate Seminar on Natural Law – Anna Williams, First Things/First Thoughts

Bp. Paprocki’s Letter Defending Marriage to be Read at All Masses This Sun. – T. Peters

Papal Nuncio to Join Walk for Life West Coast – The CWR Blog

A Benedict XVI Epiphany – George Weigel, First Things/On The Square

The State Exists to Serve, Not Usurp, the Family – Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

The Dynamic of the Gift: Authority & Submission in Christian Marriage – Mary Stanford

Why “Celebrate” Christmas. . .and the Epiphany? – Bruce Frohnen, Crisis Magazine

Same-Sex “Marriage” & Some of B16’s Italian Critics – Jos. G. Trabbic PhD, D. of Phil.

“The Poor You Will Always Have with You” – Br. Clement Dickie OP, Dominicana

Understanding Definition of Marriage – Brandon Vogt, OSV Newsweekly

My Tough Manifesto for Ending Poverty – John Bird, Catholic Herald

The Pope and the “Play-Doh” Theory of Sexuality – Carl E. Olson, The CWR Blog

“Can We Talk. . .& Talk & Talk & Talk?”: Satan’s Code Words – Jason, The Roman Road

Same-Sex Marriage & Social Change: Exceeding the Speed of Thought – Mt. J. Franck

Integrating Catholicism with Our Work: Five Actionable Ideas – Randy Hain, Intg Cth Lf™

The Key That Fits the Lock, Part Twelve – Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing

Pope Chooses New Auxiliary Bishop for Atlanta – Eternal Word Television Network News

Venezuelan Cardinal Urges Calm Amid Chavez’s Health Concerns – Cthlc News Agency

The Vatican’s New Point Man on Sexual Abuse – Christine M. Williams, Daily Register

Polar Bear Padre – Zoe Saint-Paul, Slow Mama

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