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Daria Sockey is the author of The Everyday Catholic’s Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours (Franciscan Media) and writes for a variety of Catholic publications. She lives in northwestern Pennsylvania.
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They are known as “coffee table books”—those large hardbacks full of glossy illustrations, often selected and placed strategically to show guests where our tastes lie. (Or, a cynic might say, to make our guests think […]

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