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My Experience of a Clown Mass – Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Police Fire Tear Gas & Arrest Altar Boys During Mass in Congo – Catholic Herald

USCCB: Created Male & Female; An Open Letter from Religious Leaders – Fr. Z’s Blog

Holiness is Not About Being Nice – Julie Machado, Catholic Stand

What Brought a Japanese Aristocrat (Now Venerable) to Christ? – Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Aleteia

The Protestantization of Latin America – Carlos Caso-Rosendi

Make the Sign of the Cross & Go In! – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Happy New Year. . . Now, What’s Your Fundraising Plan? – Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net

Young People Increasingly Attracted to Gregorian Chant – Catholic News Sevice via Catholic Herald

Fr. James Martin & the Perils of Imaginative Religious Art - Rick Yoder, The Amish Catholic+++

Iranian Protests May Change Everything, But What Will the Vatican Do – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith Ph.D., Catholic Herald

Church Survives For 2,000 Years: Possible or Probable? – Dan Byron, Catholic Stand

Our Mother’s Singular Grace – Matt Nelson, Catholic Answers Magazine

Will Artificial Intelligence Produce a Dystopian Future? – K.V. Turley, Crisis Magazine

Landmines: Holy See Supports Convention to Eliminate – Zenit

Pope Francis, “Diaconal Primacy” & Decentralization of Curia – Adam A.J. Deville Ph.D., The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

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Dominican Father Brian Thomas Becket Mullady speaks to Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa on ‘EWTN Live,’ on July 31, 2019.

Longtime EWTN Host Father Brian Mullady Dies at 78

Father Mullady, a Register contributor, will be remembered for his strong media presence teaching the Catholic faith in an understandable and relatable manner. Throughout his career, he hosted seven television series on EWTN and published seven books with EWTN Publishing.

Soon-to-saint Carlo Acutis' body in Assisi.

The First Millennial Saint

We are now only days away from the highly anticipated canonization of the first Millennial saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis, on April 27. Courtney Mares, Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency, joins us from the Eternal City. And then, across the US and even in secularizing Western Europe, this Let had witnessed increases in conversions. We talk to Register correspondent Matt McDonald and Jane Tomaszewski, one of the newest members entering the Church.