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Why Catholics stay, USCCB preview, and the Lateran basilica

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Nov 09, 2021
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Hey everybody,

Today the Church celebrates the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica — and this is The Tuesday Pillar Post.

The choir and apse of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. Credit: tango7174/wikimedia. CC BY SA 4.0

If you’re a convert to Catholicism, or if you didn’t grow up celebrating many liturgical feast days, it might seem a bit weird tha…

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