Big Pulpit

None So Blind: Obedience is an Antidote to Stupidity – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Certainty and Silliness of Atheism – Frank Cronin, Daily Register

“The Best Reason for a Revival of Philosophy. . . – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Crime and Punishment at Penn State – Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

MSM still Misses Point of Penn State Scandal – Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

A Good Examination of Conscience – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Ealing Abbey to Hand Over Control of School – Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald

Muslim Students Criticize Banzhaf’s Legal Action – Regina Conley, CUA/The Tower

A New Kind of Homeschooling in Ecuador – Redazione, Ilsussidiario

National Politics Returns to Europe – George Friedman, MercatorNet

Transubstantiation: Change We Can Believe In – Mark Shea, National Catholic Register

5 Things No One Knows Are Ridiculously Catholic, But Should – Marc Barnes, Pths/Bd Cthlc

And Death is Gain. . . A Reflection on the Christian View of Death – Msgr. Ch. Pope, AOW

Sir Jimmy Savile and the Saint in the Making – David Kerr, Catholic News Agency

Belmont Abbey Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Contraception Mandate – Joan Frawley Desmond, DR

Christian Social Services of Illinois: Martyrs Need Not Apply – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

New Mass Translations: “I Confess…” & “Glory to God…”– Dr. Edward Sri, Intgrtd Cthlc Lf™

“The Roman Catholic Mass is Undergoing a Major Overhaul” – Carl Olson, Ignts Insght Scp

End of the World?  Every Day is Judgement Day – Godwin Delali Adadzie, VirtuousPla.net

Why I’m Psyched for the New Roman Missal Translation – Marissa Nichols, Thlgy of Lndry

Ancient Church, Site of 7th Ecumenical Council, Turned into Mosque – Rob. Spencer, JW

Church Art Shouldn’t Make You Say “Blech!” – LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

EEG Finds Consciousness in Patients In Vegetative State, Oops! – Matthew Archbold, CMR

From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land – Kevin Ford, Distributist Review

B16: Unemployment Is Threat to People’s Dignity & Why People Need Sunday – EWTN Nws

A War Prevented: Pope John XXIII & the Cuban Missile Crisis – Ronald J. Rychlak, Crisis Mag

Mark Hart’s Advice for Meeting Teens Where They Are – Thomas L. McDonald, Daily Rgstr

Occupy Wall Street and the Decline of Soul – R.J. Snell, Ethika Politika

Paterno (Penn State), Pedophiles, Homosexuals, & Cowards – Robert Struble Jr., Cthlc Ln

Penn State Sends a Message; U.S. Bishops, Take Notice – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Penn State & the Catholic Church’s Handling of Sex Abuse – Colleen Carroll Campbell, SLPD

Glaring Hypocrisy From SNAP in Penn State Abuse Story – D. Pierre, TheMediaReport.com

Dealing with Disappointment – Joseph Koss, VirtuousPla.net

Woman Up – Mary Rosa Somarriba, Public Discourse

Photos of Mass During Wartime – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Nigerian Catholics at Risk – Catholic Lane/ACN-USA

The Way Freedom of Speech Dies: Islamists Attack a Secular Mag – Don. R. McClarey, TAC

Radical Islam in the Heart of Europe – Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Washington Times

Library of Alexandria to Be Burned Again – Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York

Wahhabism: A Forgotten Legacy of the Bosnian War – Sarah Schlesinger, Hudson Institute

The Fake Revolution that Tricked the West – Souad Sbai, Ilsussidiario

Maryland Bishops: Thank God for Religious Liberty – Kevin J. Jones, Cthlc News Agency

Kathleen Sebelius’ War Lands Her in Court – Mark L. Rienzi, Daily Register

Contraceptives Mandate would make Cowards of Us All – Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet

Bp. Lori: The Place of Organized Religion. . . Has Begun to Erode – David Kerr, EWTN News

The Scandal of the Evangelical Experts? – Thomas S. Kidd, Patheos/Faith in History

Saint Martin of Tours and the Search for Holiness – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

The Origin of Veteran’s Day with St. Martin of Tours – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Armistice Day: There is Music in the Midst of Desolation. . . – Dylan Parry, A Rlctnt Snnr

What did Chant Sound like in the 7th Century? – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

The Orthodox Question: Why Catholic & Not Eastern Orthodox? – Joe Heschmeyer, ShPo

Catholics & the American Future – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap, First Things

School Choice is a Social Justice Issue – Bp. Joseph P. McFadden, Harrisburg Patriot-News

Music to Make You Happy – Bonnie Engstrom, VirtuousPla.net

Capitalism and Social Justice – Joseph Knippenberg, First Things/First Thoughts

What Makes Those “Conservative Catholics” Tick? – DarwinCatholic, The American Cthlc

How Indulgences are Offered for the Dead – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Mvmnt

Abp. Chaput Encourages Catholic Col.’s to Lead Cultural Revival – Ben. Mann, EWTN Nws

Silence and the Liturgy – Bishop James D. Conley, Denver Catholic Register

Catholic Voices of a New Humanism – Austen Ivereigh, Ilsussidiario

‘Coffee-Shop Babies’ and Humane Procreation – John M. Grondelski, Daily Register

Another Death in the Family – Michael Cook, MercatorNet

Extreme and Radical? – Arland K. Nichols, HLI America

The Quandary You Will Always Have With You – Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

Economics Is Not Chemistry – Thomas Storck, New Oxford Review

British Monarchy and Marriage: Meaningless for a Reason – Msgr. Owen F. Campion, OSV

Catholics Come Home. . . But Just for a Visit? – Cara 1964

Occupy Your Parish Church! – Marissa Nichols, The Theology of Laundry

Ten Steps To Get Involved in the Pro-Life Movement – SBA List/Suzy B

Court Rules that Church is Liable for Crimes of Priests – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

What If It’s True? – The Strangest of Wars

Totally Consecrated – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Pisa Charterhouse – Gregor Kollmorgen, New Liturgical Movement

Le Chiese delle Cittá: San Giovanni Laterano – Nathaniel Gotcher, VirtuousPla.net

Behold the Lamb: Triumph of the New Translation – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Crisis Mgzn

False Idols at Penn State and Elsewhere – Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Collegeville Football Coach is Shocked, Shocked About Sex-Abuse – Tancred, Epnyms Flwr

Boy Missing at Modernist Monastery Almost a Decade – Tancred, Eponymous Flower

Appellate Briefs Filed Challenge to “Rainbow Day” at Middle School – Cal Catholic Daily

One-World-Government “White Paper” from Pont. Council for Justice & Peace – Fr. Z

Pope’s Top Cardinal Clamps Down on Justice & Peace Office – Thomas Peters, Cth Vt/AmP

L’Osservatore Romano‘s Declining Journalistic Standards – Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

Praise for & Prose from St. Leo the Great, Pope & Doctor – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scp

Country Music’s Raye of Hope – Terence Jeffrey, Crisis Magazine

Muslim Students Reject Human Toothache Banzhaf – Mark Shea, Patheos/CAEI!

22 Martyrs of Spanish Civil War to be Beatified – Nieves San Martin, Zenit

Nonprofit System Founded by Priest Helps Youths Dream the Future – M. Eidemiller, OSV

Cairo’s Christians Worry about Egypt’s Next Chapter – David Ignatius, Washington Post

Arab Christian US Enclaves Grow as Muslim Violence Increases – R. Contreras, Hou Chron

Fans Unite to Kill Bill to End Sectarianism – Jill Duchess of Hamilton, Catholic Herald

On an Unfriendly Post Against Spanking – Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Onward, Christian Soldiers – J. Matt Barber, Catholic Lane

The Reckless, Profitable Elimination of Down Syndrome – Mark W. Leach, Public Discourse

The ABC’s of Sex Trafficking Grants: ”Anybody But Catholics” – Bob Laird, HLI America

Communion on the Tongue and Pope St. Leo the Great – Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

What’s So Great About Catholicism? – H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine

What’s the State Interest in Promoting Gay Marriage? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

CNN’s ‘Belief Blog’: Good Catholics Accept Homosexuality – Paul Wilson, NewsBusters

What’s at Stake in Conscience Debate – Our Sunday Visitor

Homosexual Anti-Christian Indoctrination is Massachusetts Law – New Oxford Review

The Pope’s Aching Joints; The Vatican’s Odd Silence – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Just Wait Til You Have Children – Devin Rose, VirtuousPla.net

A President’s Prayer and Today’s Culture Wars – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

The Pope who Persuaded Attila the Hun to Spare Rome – Catholic Herald

Financial “Note” Blowback, Peace Office Under Lockdown – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Leo the First: 1550 Years Old & Still Affecting You Today – Stephen Masty, TIC

Vatican, Biotech Firm Aim for Stem Cell Paradigm Shift – Brian Fraga, Our Sunday Visitor

A Reflection on the Saints – Bob Waruszewski, VirtuousPla.net

The Quest to Know – Tom Martin, New Oxford Review

My Pagan Passion – Ralph McInerny, Crisis Magazine

Grandson’s Generation Will Struggle for Christian Values – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Western Civilization Ends with a Whimper – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

What Will They Tax Next? Your Christmas Tree, Seriously – Mary D. Poust, OSV Daily Take

The Wisdom of Others: “Changing Minds, Saving Lives” – Arland K. Nichols, HLI America

Excommunicated Nun Accepts Award for Abortion Decision – Matthew Archbold, Cr Mn Rp

Bye-Bye Berlusconi! – Jennifer Roche, Catholic Vote

Sudan & South Sudan on the Brink of War, Bishops Warn – EWTN News

Nicholas Kristof & Toddlers: When You Really Need a Fact Checker – Susan E. Wills, Pb Ds

Catholic Artists Society: Solemn Vespers & Lecture on Beauty – Shawn Tribe, New Lit Mov

Sir Jimmy Savile and his Catholic Faith – Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

Curtain Time for the Revised Mass – Our Sunday Visitor

New Translation Objections Are Becoming More Ridiculous – LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

The “Other Girls” – Rachel Howell, VirtuousPla.net

Joe Pa, Meet Cardinal Law – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Are All Football Coaches Perverts? – Joshua Mercer, Catholic Vote

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Reform or Bust – Rey Flores, Crisis Mgzn

Destroyer of Worlds: Indian Iconoclasm – George Conger, Get Religion

In Italy, Gain and Loss in the Struggle for Life – Josephine Quintavalle, MercatorNet

The Gnostic Traditionalist – Thaddeus Kozinski, New Oxford Review

The Coptic Winter – Samuel Tadros, Hudson Institute

How Catholics can Reclaim the American Feast of Thanksgiving – John Norton, Our Sun Vis

Having Many Beautiful Rites is a Part of Being Catholic – Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

Works (Scary!) Based Religion? – Brent Stubbs, Almost Not Catholic

Nourishing Your Spiritual Life – Julie Rodrigues,VirtuousPla.net

The Horror of the Duggars – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Newt, Marriage, and the Presidency – Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

Selective Memory, Collective Guilt: The Jews & Pope Pius XII – Paul Michael Ferguson, NOR

A Different & Extraordinary Advent this Year – Mike Aquilina, St. Paul Cntr for Bblcl Thlgy

Fewer Democrats Tend to be Churchgoers, Gallup Survey Says – Kevin J. Jones, CNA

Evangelicals Woo Brazil’s Upwardly Mobile Catholics – Matias Spektor, Intrntnl Hrld Trbn

Parents: Beware the Danger of Peer Orientation – Jennifer Fulwiler, National Cthlc Register

Taking the Long View – Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing