Big Pulpit

Catholarchaeology, Inc. – LarryD, The American Catholic

Which Is Better? Easter or Christmas? – Pat Archbold, National Catholic Register

Christians in the Middle East – George Weigel, First Things/On The Square

ALL’s Proposal: Action Against Cthlc Support of Planned Parenthood – Dr. E. Peters

The Anglican Ordinariate & the Reform of the Reform – Shawn Tribe, New Lit. Mov.

Baptismal Preparation Based on the Liturgy – Fr. Christopher Smith, The Chant Café

The Penance Now Required – Howard Kainz, The Catholic Thing

The Dakota Indians Preferred Catholicism – Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Are You Growing Holier? – Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

The Good Samaritan: Part Six – Stacy Trasancos, Accepting Abundance

Guild of Catholic Bloggers? Dominated by Taliban Catholics? – William Oddie, Cth Hrld

How We Should Address the Deficit & Debt – Monsignor Charles Pope, Archd. of Wash.

Poverty of Heart: The Way of Silent Love – Father Jeffrey Steel, De Cura Animarum

From Savannah to Harlem: Mother Theodore Williams – Pat McNamara, In Ages Past

Martyrs of the Eucharist – Rich Leonardi, Ten Reasons

The Cross is the Fountain of All Grace: This is Why We Need the Mass & Mary – T. M.

Saving Sex for Marriage – Julie Robison, The Corner With A View

Pope’s Pub – Sara Angle, Catholic News Service

English Kings Ancient Claim to France – Tribunus, Roman Christendom

Counting the Costs of the Scandal – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Cardinal Pell Lays Down the Law – Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Explaining Catholic Democrats – Mark Stricherz, Catholic Vote

Should Catholics Support Ron Paul? – D.L. Jones, The American Catholic

Kissing Second Cousins? A Priest Repents – Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Pope John Paul II & the Priests of England – Stephanie A. Mann, Sprmcy & Srvvl

Saint Richard of Chichester – Once I Was A Clever Boy

Mo Ghile Mear: “He is my Ceasar, Gallant Darling” – Tribunus, Roman Christendom

TLM “Straw” Subdeacon – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Abuse Allegations: True, False and Truthy – Richard Fitzgibbons & Peter Kleponis, MN

The Coverup of Abortion’s Real Risks – Kyle-Anne Shiver

Judge Who Declared Prop 8 Unconstitutional Acknowledges His Homosexuality – CCD

Dr. Ron Paul ‘Talks the Talk’ on Abortion, But Doesn’t ‘Walk the Walk’ – Lisa Graas

Father Pfleger Willing to Leave Church Rather than Resign Pastorate – Catholic Culture

Not True: Madonna abandoning Kabbalah for Opus Dei – John Norton, OSV Daily Take

Father Mike Tegeder is Paddling into Dangerous Pastoral Waters – Tancred, TEF

The Church’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – Not a Minx a Moron or a Parasite

The True Catholic Shakespeare? Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford – S. A. Mann

Overthrowing the Tyranny of Language – Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Children Astray in the American Regime – Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Blessed John Paul II: Feast Day and Collect – Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Madonna And Opus Dei? Really? – Patrick Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Spiritual Direction is Not a Catholic Self-Help Program – Catholic Spiritual Direction

Cut to the Chaste – Elizabeth, Startling the Day

A Guild of Catholic Bloggers, What Do You Think? – A Reluctant Sinner

Cardinal Zen: Vatican Officials Have Blocked Pope’s Plan for Chinese Church – B. Mann

‘Taliban’ Catholics – Jane Mossendew, Thoughts from an Oasis in French Catholicism

A Modern-Day Hermit – Margaret Cabaniss, InsideCatholic

On the Connection between Greed, Theft & Sexual Immorality – Msgr. Charles Pope

A Jesuit Writes from Gallipoli, A.D. 1915 – Pat McNamara

The Roman Canon, Part V (The Words of Institution) – Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Welsh Saint Derfel – Once I Was A Clever Boy

Officium Majoris Hebdomadæ, et Octavæ Paschæ, Cum Cantu – Jeffrey A. Tucker, TCC

Michele Bachmann Stands in Iowa for Marriage, Right to Life – Lisa Graas

Your Child’s Reproductive Health Care Needs – Jack Smith, The Catholic Key Blog

Hundreds of Christians Arrested for Wanting to Pray in the Streets – AsiaNews

Advise on Missalettes, Booklets for the Extraordinary Form – Father John Zuhlsdorf

Movies On-Demand and the Sovereign Self – Daniel McInerny, High Concepts

Cthlc Theological Society Leaders Question Bishops’ Caution on Sr. Johnson – CC/N

You-Genics – Matthew Archbold, National Catholic Register

What a Woman in Crisis Really Needs – Calah, Barefoot and Pregnant

Purity of Heart: The Way of Silent Love – Father Jeffrey Steel, De Cura Animarum

Catechesis in Welsh – Once I Was A Clever Boy

Augustine’s Confessions: At a Distance from God – DarwinCatholic, The American Cthlc

Pope sees European ‘Amnesia’ about Christian Roots – Catholic Culture/News

Moral Relativism Paves Way for Satanism – Catholic News Agency

Confraternity of Catholic Clergy in England already Attacked in The Tablet – Father Z

Decline in New Sex Abuse Allegations – Nancy Frazier O’Brien, Catholic News Service

Humor in Religion – Duane Mandible, Standing on my Head

Apologetics Toolbox: Assurance of Salvation – Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

National Black Prolife Coalition Wants Planned Parenthood Defunded – Lisa Graas

How Much Will Obama Cut From Planned Parenthood?: “Zero“ – Thomas Peters, AmP

Lap Dances for Extra Credit at Catholic College – Matthew Archbold, Crtv Mnrty Rprt

Feast Day Announced for John Paul II – Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Why Veil the Cross & Other Images During Passiontide? – Reginaldus, New Thlgcl Mvmnt

My Journey Home, Part Four – G. Alex Garver, Passionately Loving the World

Capitalism as an Unnatural System – John Médaille, The Distributist Review

The Two Trees of Eden – Jake Tawney, The American Catholic

Origen and Orientation – Once I Was A Clever Boy

On Childlike Simplicity & Honesty in Prayer – Monsignor Charles Pope, Archd. of Wash.

Tarting-It-Up for a Church Wedding – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Judging vs. Being Judgmental – Father Philip Neri Powell O.P. Ph.D., DDMHA!

How Catholic Universities Support Planned Parenthood – Tim Drake, Ntnl Cthlc Register

Was Chief Sitting Bull a Catholic? – Mark Armstrong, Catholic Lane

One Vote Stops Civil Unions Bill – Steve Weatherbe, The Daily Register

Should My Confessor & Spiritual Director be the Same Person? – Cthlc Spiritual Direction

Recusant Women – Once I Was A Clever Boy

Apostle of California – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

The 10th, 11th and 12th Stations of the Cross, with Saint Alphonsus – Reginaldus, NTM

Embracing a Classical Education – Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Capitalist Monopolies vs Distributist Guilds – David W. Cooney, The Distributist Review

Politics and the Devil – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap., Public Discourse

Saintly Additions to Revised Roman Missal – Sarah Hayes, The Roman Missal

Punished With Babies? – Kevin Staley-Joyce, First Things/First Thoughts

My Journey Home, Part Three – G. Alex Garver, Passionately Loving the World

Because of Charity – Allison Salerno, Why I Am Catholic

The Assisi Obex – Ches, The Sensible Bond

My Journey Home, Part Two – G. Alex Garver, Passionately Loving the World

What is the Divine Office? – Anthony S. Layne, The Impractical Catholic

The Wage Worker – Hillaire Belloc, The Distributist Review

Catholic Scriptures on Suffering – Lisa Graas

Pope John Paul II in York – Stephanie A. Mann, Supremacy and Survival

Saint Thomas Aquinas: Conversion Not Annihilation of Substance – Father Jeffrey Steel

Hymn Conflicts are Avoidable – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Memo to Rudy Giuliani – Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing

Episcopal Church: Littering is Just Like Crucifixion – Matthew Archbold, Crtv Mnrty Rprt

Abusive Priests Hiding as Military Chaplains? – Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Jesuit Marxist Friend of Tom Merton, Gives Talk at Jesuit University – Tancred, TEF

Love Intensifies Knowledge – Lisa Graas, The American Catholic

Christians are Living in “Near-Genocide Conditions.” – Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

“After Saturday Comes Sunday” – Elias Crim, Catholic Vote

Only a Christian Nation Can Protect Islamic moderates – Anthony S. Layne, OTA

Massacre in Ivory Coast & a Little Background – Sherry Weddell, COSI

Terror on the Ivory Coast – Christopher Blosser, The American Catholic

Saudi Arabia: Where Carrying a Rosary is a Crime – Zenit

The “Arab Spring” between Authoritarianism & Islamism – Samir Khalil Samir, AsiaNews

Patriarch sees Egypt Faced with a Choice: Democracy or Islamism – Alan Holdren

City Where Arabs Predominate Limits Christian Preaching – Steve Weatherbe, TDR

On the Muslim Response to Terry Jones’ Koran Burning – Chris. Blosser, TAC

Alaska Casket Maker Finds Calling After Son’s Death – Catholic Anchor

Taliban Catholic Blognic in Rome – Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

Update on Father John Corapi – Lisa Graas

A Roman Catholic Sioux Leader: Chief Sitting Bull – Tribunus, Roman Christendom

From Lesbian to Catholic – Mrs. J, Refiner’s Fire

Spiritual Direction Is Not a Boss-Employee Relationship – Catholic Spiritual Direction

Horror: Doctor Euthanized Catholic Priest – Vincenzo, Sancte Pater

Gay Watchdog Group for Media & Communications Goes after Priest – Terry Nelson, A-R

Aussie Bishop-Elect Father William Wright’s Antipathy to the TLM – Kate Edwards, AI

Saint Peter Canisius and Us – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Fall of Roman Empire Caused by ‘Contagion of Homosexuality’ – Nick Squires, Telegraph

Girl Altar Servers? – Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Lazarus’ Resuscitation Compared to Jesus’ Resurrection – Reginaldus, New Thlgcl Mvmnt

High Up, Let Down by Pope Benedict – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

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Jimmy Carter on Religion and the Oppression of Women – Tom Crowe, Catholic Vote

The Loss of Holy Week – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Reason #5648562 for Summorum Pontificum – Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Interview: Kenneth Timmerman, Author of ‘St. Peter’s Bones’ – Lisa Graas

Louis Boyer & the Shipwrecked Reformation: Liturgical Embarrassment – Fr. Jeffrey Steel

Where the Heck is My Baby? – Matthew Archbold, National Catholic Register

Viennese Cardinal Snubs Royal Family of Liechtenstein, and the Church – Tancred, TEF

The Urge to Prophesy – Mark Shea, InsideCatholic

Marian Messenger – Jim Graves, The Daily Register

Ex-Priest’s Ego Caused Break with Church, Says Former Supporter – Benjamin Mann, CNA