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David Horsey’s L. A. Times Cartoon Revives Ugly Anti-Catholicism by David F. Pierre of TheMediaReport.com website - Big Pulpit

Social Media Enhances Lenten Experience – Clarissa V. Aljentera, OSV Newsweekly

Tolkien, Mozart, Plato, & Everything Else with Gregorian Chant – Jacob Tawney, Catholic Stand

Catechizing Garry Wills – Nathaniel Peters, First Things/First Thoughts

Lent in a Sinless Age – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Papa Bene Comments on Dorothy Day – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

Benefits of Lent and Penance – Alexandra Reis, Ignitum Today

New Book: A Sense of the Sacred: Catholic Worship In The Middle Ages – Carl E. Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

St. Francis de Sales: Balaam’s Ass & Bodily Mortification – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

In Utroque Usu from Argentina – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Orthodox-Catholic Cooperation a New Sign of Hope – Stephen Muff, Crisis Magazine

Giving My Soul the Silent Treatment - Peter Vidani, Beloved Lily

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