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How Does Chastity Relate to the Restoration of Catholic Culture? – Taylor Marshal, Canterbury Tales

Sundance Films, Utah, and Porn – Edmund Mitchel, Catholic Stand

Hastening the Reform of the Reform; or, the End of Clown Masses – Joanna Bogle, The Catholic World Report

Money, Death of Culture – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

The Spiritual Benefits to Growing Old – Emily C. Hurt, Ignitum Today

Hopeful Vibrant Continuity vs. Grim Secularist Watchmen – Fr. Z’s Blog

Call to Prayer: Seven Resources for your Lenten Journey – Daniel Burke, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

What the Christian West Used to Sound Like and Will Sound Like Again – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

The Pope’s Jews – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Imitation of Jesus, Priest and Victim, and the Grace of Celibacy – Fr. Dwight Campbell, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Lent is All About Food – Priest’s Wife, Fear Not Little Flock

In Utroque Usu: Checking in with the Orange County Norbertines – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

English Chant Antiphons for the Washing of Feet – Adam Bartlett, The Chant Café

Sede Vacantism: A Conspiracy to Waste Your Time – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

Downton Abbey’s Prison Drama: A TSW Masterpiece Classic – Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, These Stone Walls

The Latest Sexual Tyranny from the Southern Poverty Law Center – Robert O. López

The Elephant in Downton Abbey’s Drawing Room – Micah Murphy, Truth & Charity

Magic of Catholic Film Classic Returns in New Remake – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

St. John of the Cross on Fatigue – Ben, Two Catholic Men and a Blog

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