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SOP4 – The School of Prayer: Reflections on the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI w/ Deacon James Keating - Episode 4- The School of Prayer: Reflections on the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI – Jacob wrestling with Angel. The mystery of the name. We have to let Go...
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Glory to God for All Things

One-Storey Universe on Kindle - For those who own an Amazon Kindle (I got one for Christmas), my book, Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe is now available. The pric...
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Via Meadia

Week in Review - This week, we published parts one and two of the “Beyond Blue” series. In America, segregation is at an historic low. Claremont McKenna College in Californ...
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What's Wrong with the World

Checking in - I apologize to my colleagues and readers (a few of you anyway!) for having been scarce these past weeks. I'll probably be scarce in the weeks to come as ...
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Courageous Priest

Satan Never Looks Like Satan - From: The Catholic Education Resource Center. By: Father George Rutler God so loved the world that he spared us the indignity of making us feel good abo...
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Vivificat!

Orthodox Bishops protest the HHS contraceptive and abortion-inducing mandate - Brethren: Christ is amongst us! He is, and always shall be! The bishops of our sister Eastern Orthodox Church have joined us in rejecting the arbitrary,...
2 hours ago
FideCogitActio

The big antlers serve the good of the species by enhancing reproductive success... - The core of Frank's thesis is that unmitigated self-interest does not, according to Darwinian awareness, produce the larger, collective, common good.
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Catholic Lane

Euthanasia In Europe: From Horror To Hope - The problems of euthanasia and end-of-life issues are extremely complicated ones, and trying to solve these problems through legislation is often difficult...
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New Advent

Michael Ramirez cartoon: "You may kiss my ring"... - From Investor's Business Daily.
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CatholicVote.org

Cartoon: Obama Vs. The Church - This cartoon by Michael Ramirez is being forwarded around a lot this weekend: full-size version here.
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Musings of a Pertinacious Papist

Inspirational Beauty: The Stained Glass Photos of Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P. - Tridentine Community News (February 5, 2012): Stained Glass is an art form where even the most inexperienced observer can recognize quality when he or she ...
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Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

Pope Nope I - Maybe a little over the top. . . . . .but not inaccurate. Credit: HotAir ____________________ Follow *HancAquam* and visit the Kindle Wish List and the...
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Ad Orientem

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The Anchoress

The day looks different if you don’t just stumble into it” - This is a really enjoyable report from the Catholic News Service, on dear our Pope Benedict XVI and his personal prayer: And something to think about on th...
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JIMMY AKIN.ORG

Did You Know? Feb. 5, 2012 - On Feb. 5, 1958 the U.S. military LOST a hydrogen bomb that has NEVER been recovered. LEARN MORE.
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Siris

Three Oughts - I've previously argued that 'ought' is a a problem-relative fact about practical options, or, to put it on other words, that saying "I ought to do X," (or ...
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The Prosblogion

SCP Offers New Student Rate - In case you've missed it, the Society of Christian Philosophers has introduced an new student rate of just $10. Beginning January 1, 2012, students may join ...
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Late Papers

Discovering Destiny - Train Car with Graffiti I've been reading *Joseph and His Brothers* by Mann. I'm not quite half way through, and Joseph has started his life as a slave in...
18 hours ago
CatholicHerald.co.uk

Daily readings: February 5 – 11 - Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
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Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog

"Confronting the Claim of Eastern Orthodoxy to be..." - "... the True Church" is the title of a recent Homiletic & Pastoral Review article by James Likoudis. Here is part of the opening: There is need for Catholic...
23 hours ago
Ruth Institute Blog

Anti-abortion groups cite alleged cancer-abortion link to explain Komen’s split with Planned Parenthood - By Judson Berger As the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation faces accusations that it split with Planned Parenthood over political pressure, at least a ...
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Mirror of Justice

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life 2nd Edition - Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, which I wrote with moral philosopher Christopher Tollefsen, and which was published by Doubleday in 2008, is now available...
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Standing on My Head

The Failures of Newman - Fr Peter Cornwell was the vicar of St Mary's--the University Church at Oxford during my time there. He resigned, like Newman before him, to become a Cath...
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Unequally Yoked

Stoicism is a Helluva Drug - While discussing Feser and First Mover problems with a college friend, he tried to pitch me on Deism (but mostly as a waystation to paganism). I asked wha...
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Just Thomism

God and the principle of contradiction (pt. 1) - I’ve been trying for a week to articulate a theological rule and I can’t get it right. Here’s something like what I want to claim: You cannot say anything ...
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Dyspeptic Mutterings

The Kulturkampf expands to the pulpit. - The Army did not approve of the Archbishop for the Military Services' letter, so it could not be read from the pulpit last Sunday. Angry? Yes. But so long a...
1 day ago
National Review Online

The Liberal Enforcers - As Senator Obama said during the 2008 campaign, words matter. Modern “liberalism” is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of “tolerance” are increasing...
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The Creed - It was the Methodist theologian Will Willimon who, about fifteen ago now in a short article in *The Christian Century *(if my memory serves) wrote of once ...
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Vatican II and the Two Ends of Marriage - A Catholic couple that I know went to a pastor to ...
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Never Give Up

The Eucharist and the Fire of God's Love - Jesus remains with us in His own reality, the wonderful gift of Himself that is the Eucharist. In the Eucharist, the mysterious act of His offering Himself...
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Obama Administration Tyrannizes Military Chaplains - RESIST THE TYRANT!
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Franklin Graham Condemns Bible School Bombing - Setrige Crawford, CP Franklin Graham has condemned Wednesday's attack on the Heiban Bible Study schools and has expressed concern for the welfare of th...
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Natural Causes, Divine Commands, and Human Wellbeing - The precepts of the natural law are obligatory not because they are commanded, but because they are necessary for our well-being. God’s revelation of these...
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Edward Feser

Reading Rosenberg, Part VII - Pressing on through Alex Rosenberg’s *The Atheist’s Guide to Reality*, we come to Rosenberg’s treatment of morality. Followed out consistently, Rosenberg...
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Shameless Popery

The Sacrificial New Testament Priesthood in Malachi 3 - Yesterday was Candlemas, also called the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The First Reading, fittingly, is a prophesy about how the Chris...
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Energetic Procession

A concern with Transubstantiation - Recently during a lecture referring to the change of the elements of the eucharist, a concern came to mind regarding the doctrine of transubstantiation. Th...
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Peer-Driven Learning: Blogging vs the Term Paper - College Ready Writing A response to my students' thoughts on the subject.
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The Obama Admininstration’s Crabbed Vision of Religious Liberty - Yesterday, while I was listening with students to the oral arguments in the Hosanna-Tabor case, I noticed something I hadn’t caught before. Here’s Leondra...
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Alex Pruss: Pure Philosophy

How likely are the laws of nature? - This is one of those annoying loosey-goosey big-picture posts. Consider the Newtonian law of gravitation: *F*=*G**m**m*'/*r*2. What should be the prior ...
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St. Joseph's Vanguard - Devin Rose

Confessions of a Downton Abbey Fan - I admit it: I’m a man…and I like Downton Abbey. For those who don’t know, it’s the PBS World War I-era period piece miniseries, now in it’s second season. ...
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A New Moral Theology Journal - The Fr. James M. Forker Professorship of Catholic Social Teaching and the College of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Mary’s University is sponsoring a new jour...
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Canterbury Tales by Taylor Marshall

A Winter Saint That You Should Know: Saint Blaise - *Saint Blaise of Sebaste* February is often a time marked by colds, throat infections, and respiratory illness. The patron saint of throat cures is Saint ...
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The Crescat...

I hate always being right… - … Breaking News: Koman reverses decision on Planned Parenthood grants A short lived victory with an utterly disappointing and predictable end. Why, SGK Fou...
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Government Of, By, and For the Ungovernable - Apologize for the Sun Ra freakout yesterday. Obviously my wires got crossed as a result of trying to blog while watching the Holder thingy, and that's what...
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What is Charlie Teo's solution for Australia? - Charlie Teo, a leading neurosurgeon, gave the Australia Day speech this year. Teo was born in Australia to Singaporean Chinese parents. His speech caused a...
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What Is a Just War? - When President Obama announced last April that he was sending the United States military to bomb Libya, he not only violated the United States Constituti...
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First Things: On the Square

How Would St. Germanus Site Your Church? - In recent years, much work has been done to restore the traditional principles of church design; one principle, however, is still often overlooked: sitin...
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ZENIT

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The Sacred Page

Join Us in Lubbock This Weekend - Join us Saturday and Sunday in Lubbock, Texas, for the Footsteps in Faith Cathoic Bible conference. With Scott Hahn still unable to fly post-surgery, the li...
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Diary of a Wimpy Catholic

Here Comes Everybody? Don’t Bet on It - According to an old aphorism, a little anti-Semitism is good for Jews. Since the Obama administration announced the guidelines for its Patient Protection a...
2 days ago
Catholic Tech Talk

Have Mercy On The QR Code: The 5 Sins Of QR Codes Use - When I initially came across QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) I started seeing a lot of great possibilities for our parishes (Click here to see my previous...
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Ross Douthat

Liberals and Catholic Hospitals - Just because you can come up with a theoretical justification for a policy doesn't make it a good idea.
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Beyond Blue

On Groundhog Day: 12 Winter Depression Busters - Last year on this day, I got fired. That was a real pleasant Groundhog Day. I was so confused by what had happened that I drove around the D.C. beltway tw...
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Creed Code Cult

On Expertise and Idiocy - OK, this is going to seem a bit random, but it's been on my mind lately and is a source of frustration. It seems to me that it is not until one achieves a...
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Catholic Culture Commentary

Clericalism - I read through Russell Shaw's book on clericalism last night. I had missed it the first time around, when it was published by Ignatius Press in 1993. ...
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Called to Communion

Fragments of the Cross - At the end of November, for the first Sunday of Advent, our family made a short pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concept...
4 days ago
Bioethics International

Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’? - [NYTimes]- Last October, in Foshan, China, a 2-year-old girl was run over by a van. The driver did not stop. Over the next seven minutes, more than a dozen...
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Verdicts

All the World’s a (Political) Stage - Just can’t get enough of cutthroat politics? Find yourself on YouTube, replaying the meaner jabs from the Republican primary debates? You might want to ad...
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PAPER CLIPPINGS

Freedom for all - Yuval Levin is absolutely correct: the problem with the Obama decision on contraception coverage is not primarily about religious freedom. It is about the ...
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The Ironic Catholic

Quote Of The Day - "The Amish do not carry health insurance. The government respects their principles. Christian Scientists want to heal by prayer alone, and the new health-c...
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High Concepts

Ralph McInerny, Sonnet 71 - My father, Ralph McInerny, died two years today, January 29, 2010. Below is his poem, Sonnet 71, from his collection, *Shakespearean Variations* (St. Aug...
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Articuli Fidei

A series of YouTube videos 'making the rounds' on anti-Islamic sites - There has been a considerable amount of internet chatter, over the last couple days, due to a series of *YouTube* videos that were linked to (and embedded)...
1 week ago
Conversion Stories

Eclectic Convert: Shane Kapler - [image: Eclectic Convert: Shane Kapler] Shane Kapler *Born into a nominal Catholic family, Shane was only 13 when he experienced a profound crisis of fait...
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Fides Quaerens Sanitatem

"He's a Catholic guy": A concise summary of some important problems between dating and Catholics. - I would preface this note by fully and completely admitting that I am singularly not a living expression of the "average Catholic" who is in the dating rea...
3 weeks ago
The Recovering Dissident Catholic

Solemnity of Mary Mother of God -
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Mary Victrix

What’s Your Philosophy? A Year’s End Assessment - Filed under: Catholicism, Knights, Religion Tagged: Modernism, Philosophy, Traditionalism
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Divine Life - A Blog by Eric Sammons

Now available for pre-order - I’m sure you all are thinking, “Eric isn’t blogging much anymore, so how can I get my fix of his writing?” Well, if you are a fan of delayed gratification ...
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De unione ecclesiarum

Notes on Liberal Education and Eastern Christianity - Yesterday evening I gave a lecture here in Cleveland at the Lyceum School before an audience of ten people. It is, I confess, a somewhat haphazard discussi...
1 month ago
Disputations

Our Magic Bishops - In a blog post on U.S. Catholic, Scott Alessi contrasts statements on poverty from the Archdiocese of New York and the bishops of New Jersey with the lack ...
2 months ago
Sonitus Sanctus: Free Catholic MP3 Links

Institute of Catholic Culture - Just a reminder that they're still doing awesome things at the Institute of Catholic Culture, such as the following: Lecture Title:Presenter(s):Original Si...
2 months ago
Acts Of The Apostasy

THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - Ready? Here it is. AoftheA has moved to Wordpress. Pardon the moving boxes and clutter - it'll be cleaned up in no time! So sayonara, Blogger. Comments ...
2 months ago
Bumping Elbows with Christ

Five solid catechetical books - *Over at First Things, David Nickol has a great suggestion in his comment to the Elizabeth Scalia's post, A Dictatorship of Sentimentalism.** David wrote:...
6 months ago
Headline Bistro - Dawn Eden

A New (Old) Way of Growing in Chastity - Tempted? Turn to Thomas Aquinas for a new (old) way to grow in chastity.
6 months ago
Spengler

I Depart from the Masthead of First Things - As of February 28, my position as Senior Editor at First Things will end. Such is the publishing world: the challenge of producing a well-printed book of n...
11 months ago
Law of the Bad Premise

Sarah Palin and the GOP - One way or the other, Sarah Palin will have the biggest impact on the GOP’s chances to win the presidency in 2012. Her recent editorial in the Wall Street ...
1 year ago
An Examined Life

Our New Dark Ages - Recently I had the opportunity to listen to part of a debate between candidates for public office, and the topic of cap and trade was on their agenda. I wa...
1 year ago
sacra doctrina

As much as I try... -
1 year ago
Editor's Briefing

A new home for Morning Catholic Must-Reads - From today, Morning Catholic Must-Reads has a new home on The Catholic Herald’s new website. Thank you for reading the blog here. I look forward to seeing ...
1 year ago
The Catholic Thing

The Church’s Unholy Holiness - Each Sunday we profess belief that the Church is holy. Yet almost daily the newspapers challenge this profession with accounts of heinous sins by her leade...
1 year ago
In the Light of the Law

Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA - Besides regularly updating my Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA page, I have recently been improving the layout of and links offered on the page. Now,...
1 year ago

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