Popes Should Resign More Often; Pope Francis on War: No; Caesar's Thumb and Much More!

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Tito Edwards News July 17, 2014

Popes Should Resign More Often by Marc Barnes of Bad Catholic - BigPulpit.com

Pope Francis on War: “No” – Father Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia

Caesar’s Thumb - Cynthia Millen, Catholic Stand

The Facebook Timeline and the Disintegration of Memory - Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic

The Illness of the Bended Walker – Nic Davidson, Ignitum Today

Marriage: A Catholic Understanding – Kerri Baunach, Catholic Sistas

Saint John Paul II’s Father Is a Role Model for All Men – Francis Phillips, The Catholic Herald

The Right and Wrong Way to Talk About Rape – Misty, Catholic Sistas

Hands Off Iraq – John Zmirak, Aleteia

Is Praise and Worship Music “More Than a Feeling? - Mr. C, The Chant Café

Prayer as a Political Problem: A Classic Reconsidered – Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine

Declaring A Truce in the Youth Ministry Wars – Nick Alexander

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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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