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Video: Cloistered Nun Mother Dolores at the Oscars! - Chelsea Zimmerman, Reflections of a Paralytic

How Long Does A Penance Last? - Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

St. Germanus & Turning Eastward - Dino Marcantonio, New Liturgical Movement

A Consideration of the Church’s Role in the Public Square - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Obama’s Support of Infanticide Takes Center Stage - Jill Stanek, LifeSiteNews.com

Cardinal George: No Catholic Hospitals in 2 Years Unless Mandate Rescinded - Catholic Culture

Will The Real Padre Pio Please Stand Up? - Hurd Baruch, New Oxford Review

G. K. Chesterton About “Compulsory Contraception” - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Food & Hydration: A Natural Law Perspective - Fr. Jack Healy O Carm, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Reflection: Meaning Of Forty Days Of Lent - Vanessa Barnes, Gulf Coast Catholic

HuffoPo: Catholicism is “The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum” - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

The Jesuits and America - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev - Joseph Susanka, Crisis Magazine

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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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