These past few weeks on the internet... #3

So I've been really busy lately and didn't even get this simple post up. But anyway. Here's what I've got.

The Acid Bath of Ingratitude
by Elizabeth Scalia at First Things

Ten things most people don't know about Pope Francis
by Carol Glatz at CNS

Happy Birthday, Norman Borlaug
by Jarrett Skorup at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
This is a credit to the man who refused to believe that overpopulation would result in mass poverty. He believed human ingenuity was a great resource, and, by teaching farming techniques to third-world people, saved about a billion people from starvation.

Rediscovering the role of women in the early Church
via Vatican Radio

Feeding the Hungry: Giving the poor what is justly theirs
by Mark Shea at National Catholic Register

Stephen Colbert responds to atheists' response to the 9/11 cross

The ACA's Heavy Burden
by the editors at National Review
In which they ponder this question: Do Americans enjoy religious-liberty protections when they are at church, or Americans enjoy religious-liberty protections when they are Americans?

When your love looks like hate
by Br. Dominic Mary Verner, OP, at Dominicana
In which the author discusses the difficulty in sharing the Church's understanding of marriage with the modern world -- specifically regarding homosexuality. He reaches the only good conclusion, I think.