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Inside Leonardo da Vinci’s Mind - Nora Hamerman, OSV Newsweekly

A Church Built Out of Ice - Sydney Morning Herald

Breaking Bad Liturgical Habits II - George Weigel, First Things/On the Square

What Did Christ Look Like? - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

New Translation: 12 Liturgical Terms You Should Know - Saint Peter’s List

The Natural Law & Ritual Laws - Alice von Hildebrand, New Oxford Review

May Catholics Work on Sunday? (Thomas Aquinas) - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money - John Médaille, The Distributist Review

The King is Coming (Matthew 2:1-6) - Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Desiderata for 2012 - Fr. C. John McCloskey III, The Catholic Thing

Hell in Six Acts - Jeff Harris, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

2012 For Us! How About for Others? - Jared Dale Combista, Ignitum Today

World Lost 2 Brilliant & Eminent Catholic Philosophers - Robert George, Mirror of Justice

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