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The Altars of Santa Prassede - Fr. Lawrence Lew OP, New Liturgical Movement

The Pope Who Told an Emperor His Mind was Coarse - Catholic Herald

What Does St. Teresa Mean by “Pesky Reptiles”? - Sr. Carmen Laudis OCD, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Tong Cardinal Hon: The 7th Chinese Cardinal - Gerard O’Connell, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

An Overdue Letter to My Children In Heaven - The Passionate Papist

I Love Flying but I Hate Organized Aviation - Mary Kochan, Catholic Lane

Same-Sex Attraction & the Choice for the Greatest Good - Patrick Einheber, Catholic News Agency

Mocking Religious Women By Militant Secularists Will Backfire - Dave Hartline, The American Catholic

Quæritur: Can a Priest, While Camping, Reserve a Host for Adoration after Mass? - Fr. Z’s Blog

Confessions of a Spiritual Insomniac - Nathan Kennedy, Ignitum Today

“Inclusive Language” Excludes God - Daria Sockey, Coffee and Canticles

Receiving the Sacraments is Not a ‘Right’ - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Basketball’s Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks’ Tim Tebow? - Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Get Religion

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