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Orestes "Blog"

I'm still looking for blogs that revolve around the thought of famous Catholic authors. Thanks to the reader who sent to my attention: The Orestes Brownson page. It's not really a blog, but it has blog-like characteristics, and any page dedicated to Brownson is a good page.

Earlier post about Brownson's conversion. It's excerpted from an article I wrote for Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Spring 2004.

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