20 Cool Things About Nuns in Habits; Orality, Literacy, and the Memorized Poem and Much More!

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20 Cool Things About Nuns in Habits by Patti Maguire Armstrong of Epic Pew - BigPulpit.com

Orality, Literacy and the Memorized Poem – Mike Chasar, Poetry Foundation

Let’s Pretend Pro-Lifers Don’t Exist – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

On the Strange Squid Near at Hand – Bernardo Aparicio García, Dappled Things

Pope Francis Shocks Secularists on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ by Paul Kengor, PhD, of Crisis Magazine - BigPulpit.com

Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Consul” – Daniel J. Heisey, Saint Austin Review

Don’t Cry Over Spilt Green Chili – Theresa Earleywine, Ignitum Today

Religious Notebooking For Kids – Lacy, Catholic Icing

Cardinal Burke Is Right, The Church has become Feminized – Matthew James Christoff, The New eMangelization

Thousands Sign Petition Calling for Richard III to have a Catholic Burial - Mark Greaves, Catholic Herald

The Kirby Vacuum Salesman Who Became a Star – Elizabeth Scalia, The Anchoress

Methodist Leader of “Human Rights” Mocks Pro-life Marchers – Matthew Schmitz, First Things

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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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