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There Hasn’t Been A Bearded Pope In More Than 300 Years, There Is A Reason For It – Daniel Esparza at Aleteia +1

Newman’s Children: John Senior – Michael Pakaluk at The Catholic Thing +1

Mind-Blowing Profundity At The Reconstituted John Paul II Institute 2.0 – Fr. Z’s Blog

Attracting “Low Church” Folks To The Beautiful Divine Worship In The Ordinariates – Deborah Gyapong at The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

Fr. James Martin & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – One Mad Mom

The Real Threat Of Schism Comes From Germany – Philip Lawler at Catholic Culture

General Patton & God: Blood & Guts’ Prayer – Daniel Demers at Catholic Stand

St. Thomas Aquinas Teaches Us How to Be Happy – Caleb Whitmer at Catholic Exchange

The Religious Left Just Doesn’t Get It: Socialism Is Anti-Christian – Paul G. Kengor, Ph.D., at Crisis Magazine

A Catholic Priest Blessing Of So Called Same-Sex "Marriage" In Switzerland? – The Motley Monk

The Loneliness of the Prodigal Son – Paul Kniaz at Catholic Stand

Pete ‘Angel of Light’ Buttigieg Has His Very Own Kermit Gosnell – John Zmirak, Ph.D., at The Stream

The Polish Church Is Under Attack, But It Is Standing Firm – Jonathan Luxmoore at Catholic Herald

On Hong Kong the Vatican Is Silent, Tractable to Beijing – Sandro Magister at Settimo Cielo

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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.