In Vatican Media Shake-up, Papal In-flight Chats Need to Go; Why We Need Lent; and Much More!

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In the Vatican’s Media Shake-up, Papal In-flight Conferences Definitely Has to Go by Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith of Catholic Herald - Big Pulpit

Hello, Church? Anybody Home? Why Do Parishes and Dioceses Have Poor Call Back? – Barb Lishko, Catholic Lane

What to Do When Pope Francis Trumpets Immigration and Aliens – Anabelle Hazard, Catholic Stand

What’s the Point of Fasting, Anyway? – Catholic News Agency

Ed Peters on Reactions and Claims About Pope Francis’s Off-the-Cuff Contraception Remark by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf of Fr. Z’s Blog - Big Pulpit

Why We Need Lent – George William Rutler, The Catholic World Report

Six Steps to Lent Evangelization in the Workplace – Chloe Mooradian, Epic Pew

Is It Over Yet? Lessons for Lent – Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine

The Chair of Saint Peter and the Gift of the Papacy – Anne Marie Miller, Ignitum Today

Pope Francis’s Prevarication Over Russia Will Disappoint Ukrainians – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

False Extremes Part 1: The Case of the Missing “Both-And” – James Hooper, Catholic Stand

I Am a Uniate, and I am Not Ashamed of Being a Uniate: Apologia Pro Unia – Adam A.J. DeVille, The Catholic World Report

Big Brother Twitter – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Pope Francis’ Serious Misstep Among a Lot of Good – Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

“What a Bore Clergy Find the ‘Hymn to Love’ in I Corinthians 13. . .” – Fr. Z’s Blog

At the Summit Is the Embrace in Havana, But At the Base Unity Is Far Away – Sandro Magister, Sandro Magister

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