Both Benedict and Francis Encouraged Catholics to Read Robert Hugh Benson, On Sloth, and Much More!

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Both Pope Benedict and Pope Francis Have Encouraged Catholics to Read Robert Hugh Benson by Ann Applegarth of The Catholic World Report - Big Pulpit

After Obergefell: The Effects on Law, Culture, and Religion – Sherif Girgis PhD, The Catholic World Report

Waiting Out the Storm - Autumn Jones, Catholic Stand

Answers for Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Advocate Matthew Vines - Scott Eric Alt

On Sloth and Wonder – Mary Proffit Kimmel, Ignitum Today

Corporate America: A Friend of the Family? – Gillis Harp, Crisis Magazine

Fictional Characters That Should Study the Theology of The Body – Doug Johnson, Epic Pew

On Justice Kennedy’s Tenuous Grasp of Human Dignity - Anthony Esolen PhD, Crisis Magazine

Elizabeth Was Actually a Sinister Queen – Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Chaput, Romeri & the Battle Over Music in Philadelphia – Mark Nowakowski, One Peter 5

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Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal Catholic life, he reverted completely to his childhood faith that began on the eve of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He publishes Big Pulpit, Catholic Stand, Ignitum Today, and The American Catholic.

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