Big Pulpit

Bishops Issue Letters Objecting to HHS Mandate – EWTN News

Obama Plays His Liberal Catholic Allies for Fools – Jay Anderson, Pro Ecclesia

Obama vs. Religious Liberty: 5 Important Updates – Thomas Peters, Cth Vote/Amrcn Ppst

Father Jenkins, History is Calling – Matt Archbold, The Cardinal Newman Society Blog

Obama-Logic 101 and the Contraception Mandate – Jay Boyd PhD, Philothea on Phire

A Setback for the Secularists? – James J. Cole, Crisis Magazine

Hell, Health Insurance, and a Man’s Soul – Arland K. Nichols, HLI America

Restoration of the Virgin of Lepanto (English) – Henri Adam De Villiers, New Ltrgcl Mvmnt

Be Not Afraid: Hope for Parents Whose Babies Will Likely Die – Peter Baklinski, Lf St Nws

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua Dies at 88 – Joseph Pronechen, Daily Register

Hours Before Card. Bevilacqua Dies, SNAP Suggests He is Faking Illnesses – The Media Rprt

U.S. Bishops: Who are We, Americans or Catholics? – Louie Verrecchio, Catholic Lane

Bishops Have Only Themselves for Obama’s Persecution of Catholics – Eric Giunta, LR

Nigeria: Silent Christian Exodus – Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Does Morality Inhibit Freedom? – Kathleen Curran Sweeney, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Why Contraception Is a Bad Idea #1: Natural Law – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Death Penalty – Joe, Two Catholic Men and a Blog

If Sacred Object is Desecrated, It’s Already Happened in Mind & Soul – Etheldredaspalce

Church, Mass What’s the Difference & Why Does It Matter – Cthlc Boy Richard (link fixed)

Trial Judge Declares Abuse in Catholic Church ‘Widespread’ Indicts Dead Bishop – Md Rprt

Eduardo Verastegui Predicts End of Abortion in America – Catholic News Agency

Marriage’s Vanishing Act – Russell Shaw, Crisis Magazine

Toowoomba Again: Who is Fr. Ian Waters? – Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Family Breakdown Accelerating in the West – Susan Yoshihara PhD, Turtle Bay & Beyond

Happy Groundhog Day – Barbara Curtis, Arlington Catholic Herald

Catholics & War: 7 Thoughts from St. Thomas Aquinas – H. H. Ambrose, Saint Peter’s List

Go Tell the Komen Foundation Thanks! – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

New Komen Pro-Life VP Credited for Planned Parenthood Cuts – Steven Ertelt, Life News

Komen Foundation Stops Grants to Planned Parenthood – Lisa Correnti, Turtle Bay & Bynd

Study Gives Insight into ‘Persistent Vegetative State’ – Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller, OSV

CBS News Shows Only Pro-Aborts from March for Life – John Jalsevac, LifeSiteNews.com

Yes! Komen Kicks Planned Parenthood to the Curb – Martina, Catholic Sistas

African Genocide: Planned Parenthood to Kill More African Babies – P. Baklinski, LSN

Angels in Africa – Edward Pentin, Daily Register

TOB: My Q&A Session with Dr. Peter Kreeft – Wade St. Onge, From The Ivory Tower

God, Teacher – Allie Terrell, Ignitum Today

The Trivialization of Human Rights – Wendy Wright, Turtle Bay and Beyond

Vocation Office Updates for Feb. 2012 – Fr. Benedict Croell OP, Order of Preachers Vctns

The Humble Pie Challenge – Katie Sciba, Truth & Charity

Leo XIII on Withholding Obedience to Unjust Laws Imposed by Civil Government – Fr. Z

The Daughters of the Anti-Women Candidate – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Rprt

Florida: Newt’s Paradise Lost – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

The Permanent Revolution: ‘No Enemies to the Left’ Still! – Kenneth D. Whitehead, NOR

American Narcissus – The German Egyptian, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

George Will on Obama’s Militaristic Rhetoric – Paul Zummo, The American Catholic

America: Christian or Jacobin? – John Zmirak, Crisis Magazine

Mitt Romney Skips Third Pro-Life Personhood Event – Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com

Obama Launches Attack on Church: “Comply or Pay a Fine” – Right on Target

First They Came For. . . – Jeffrey Miller, The Curt Jester

The Cost Of Conscience – LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Marco Rubio Introduces Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012 – D. R. McClarey, TAC

Catholics, Get Ready to Suffer – Matthew Archbold, National Catholic Register

Vox Nova Blog Covering for Obama Even After Anti-Catholic Mandate – Jay Anderson, PE

Fast and Pray! This Friday! – Micah Murphy, Truth & Charity

Divine Doctoring, and the Church’s Least Understood Sacrament – Mark Shea, OSV

Is Prayer to the Saints Pointless? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Carnational Musings: Beauty of the Senses – Nathaniel Gotcher, Ignitum Today

Why My Big Family Is Not Overpopulating the Earth – Jennifer Fulwiler, Ntnl Cthlc Register

If You Can’t Solve the Whole Problem. . . (Lawsuit Against Bp. Ochoa) – Dr. Peters, ITLOTL

Bishop Ochoa: Curiouser and Curiouser – Jay Boyd PhD, Philothea on Phire

More Dirty Laundry: El Paso Parishioners Sue Bishop Ochoa – California Catholic Daily

Denial of Life-Saving Care for Mentally Disabled: Sign of Things to Come? – C. Hays, Dly Rg

David, A Great King, Yet With a Critical Flaw – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archd. of Washington

Who Wrote the Oldest Gospel? – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

The Soul is Meant to be a Kind of Heaven – Dr. Anthony Lilles, Beginning to Pray

A Dangerous Practice: Enneagram – Anna Abbott, Catholic World Report

Susan G. Komen Breaks Partnership with Planned Parenthood – DarwinCatholic, TAC

Obama Appointee: One of the Strongest Pro-Abortion Justices – Ben Johnson, Lf St Nws

Occupy Wall Street Bigots – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Opportunistic, Misogynist, Pro-Choice Male: The Jig is Up – Kim Vandapool, Uniconoclast

Arguments Ever New – Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Europeans Cross Oceans to Join U.S. March for Life – Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com

And the Award for Most Students at the March for Life Goes to. . . – Card. Nwmn Scty Blg

Home: the First Catholic School – Micah Murphy, Truth & Charity

Vestments from the Era of Pope Clement VIII – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Let’s Go Over This Again, It’s Our Liturgical Worship – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Dark Nights – Mariella Hunt, Ignitum Today

Faith at Work and Working the Faith – Kevin O’Brien, StAR

De-Baptism & the Records of the Church – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

Plan B, Gloria Steinem Rm., & Making Pro-Life Decisions After Rape – Kissing the Leper

The Genetics of Same-Sex Attraction – Stanton L. Jones, First Things/First Thoughts

Fr. Rodriguez Speaks at El Paso City Council Meeting – Jay Boyd PhD, Philothea on Phire

Toowoomba ‘Leadership’ Gp.: Delusion, Disobedience & Deceit – Kate Edwards, Oz Incgnt

Mentally Ill Woman Fights Court-Ordered Abortion & Sterilization – Ch. M. Williams, Dly Rg

Euthanasia Should be Banned Across Europe, Rules Council – Simon Caldwell, Cthlc Herald

Can’t We All Just Ignore This? – Dena Hunt, StAR

Rubio Introduces Bill to Protect Churches Against Obama Mandate – J. F. Desmond, Dly Rg

Obama Mandate Could Face Tough Sledding in Supreme Court – Dav. G. Savage, LAT

Catholics Outraged, Secular Media Unimpressed – Mollie Ziegler, Get Religion

I Shouldn’t Have Waited for the Bishops – Stacy Trasancos PhD, Catholic Lane

The Pope Told You So – Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis Magazine

Act Now Pro-Abort Lobby Defends Obama Mandate as Opposition Rises – K. Gilbert, LSN

St. John Bosco’s Dream – Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Kirill: Good Relations with Pope Doesn’t Imply a Meeting between Us– La Stampa

Starbucks Endorses Unnatural “Marriage”; Buy Mystic Monk Coffee, Not Starbucks – Fr. Z

Card. Koch: “The Crisis of the Church is Above All a Crisis of the Liturgy” – Sancrucensis

A New Aristocracy that Can Offend But Cannot Be Offended – Joseph Pearce, StAR

State Dept Holds Live Chat on Advancing LGBT Rights – Lisa Correnti, Turtle Bay & Beyond

What’s Your Apology Policy? – Simcha Fisher, National Catholic Register