<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="max-width: 400px; margin: 0 auto;"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-comic-str… style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/ema

<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/encounter-jesus… with Jesus</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Thursday, January 5, 2023</p>

<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Thursday. Pope Francis extolled the&nbsp;late Pope Benedict XVI in an historic Vatican funeral this morning. And NCR Vatican correspondent Christopher White interviews Anne Burke, former chair of the U.S. bishops' lay-run National Review Board, about the board's surprising relationship&nbsp;with Benedict.</strong></p>

<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/know-thyself">K… thyself</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Wednesday, January 4, 2023</p>

<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/american-conservatives-don… conservatives don't understand the late Pope Benedict's legacy</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Michael Sean Winters</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-famil

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<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/lamb-god">The Lamb of God</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Tuesday, January 3, 2023</p>

<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/dignitaries-lay-catholic…, lay Catholics line up in Rome to pay respects to late Pope Benedict XVI</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Christopher White</div><div style="font-size: 19px; fo