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Upon How Many Donkeys Did Christ Ride Into Jerusalem? - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Will the New Missal buck the Trend and be a Nice Book? - Father Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

Because My Boys Needed to Know About Saint Hildegard of Bingen - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Office of Readings for Blessed John Paul II - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Psalm 31, Part 2: The Grace of Forgiveness (Verse 1) - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Christians in a Post-Welfare State World - Samuel Gregg, The American Spectator

Civil War: The Catholic Story - John Burger, Fathers for Good

High Court Rules Against Cardinal Vaughan Parents - Anna Arco, Catholic Herald

If Pro-Abortion Politicians are Willing to Shut Down the Government. . . - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Did Michael Voris Instruct Catholics to Leave the Church? - Lisa Graas

Top Choral Director Calls Modern Church Music ‘Ecclesiastical Karaoke’ - David Kerr, Catholic News Agency

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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