The 2016 Agenda for Pope Francis, Why Christmas Matters, The Collapse of the Family, and Much More!

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Tito Edwards News December 31, 2015

The 2016 Agenda for Pope Francis by Austen Ivereigh of O.S.V. Newsweekly - Big Pulpit

We Are Seeing Stark Evidence of Chaos and the Collapse of the Family – Russell Shaw, The Catholic World Report

Why Christmas Matters – Felix Whelan, Catholic Stand

Is It True that There Is No Truth? – Karlo Broussard, Catholic Answers

Star Wars The Force Awakens: The Spoiler-Free Epic Review – Ryan Mayer, Epic Pew

Why We Cannot Reach Compromise on Euthanasia – Wesley J. Smith, First Things

An Intimate Portrait of the Founder of Opus Dei – Richard Bastien, Crisis Magazine

Guest Article: a Tribute to Jeffrey Tucker and Gregory DiPippo – Richard Chonak, New Liturgical Movement

Tastes in Spiritual Reading and Devotional Books (Mostly Mine) – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D., Catholic Culture

My New Book! Jesus and the Last Supper – Brant Pitre Ph.D., The Sacred Page

New Organ Recording: Influences, by Jonathan Ryan – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

Anti-School Choice and Anti-Catholicism, One and the Same – Michael Bindas, The Wall Street Journal

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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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