Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/04/12

No one can avoid the question of who Jesus of Nazareth really is, Benedict XVI said in his Palm Sunday homily in St Peter’s Square yesterday (full text).

The Cuban authorities have accepted Pope Benedict’s request to make Good Friday a public holiday (full text of Vatican response).

Those faithful who object to the Church running schools with a minority of Catholic pupils are themselves “rather un-Catholic“, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has told the Wall Street Journal.

Dylan Parry, Joseph Shaw, Laurence England and Joanna Bogle reflect on taking part in one of the biggest ever prayer vigils outside an abortion clinic in Britain.

Jeffrey Tucker clashes with Sandro Magister over the merits of the Sistine Chapel choir.

And Joe Heschmeyer explains why the Summa Theologica might come in handy in a zombie uprising.