Oh You Catholics, With Your Lent and Your Cakes and Your Little Baby Jesus-es on Them

NPR has a right fascinating essay on the tradition of placing a baby Jesus on a cake.  No, friends, you can’t make that kind of stuff up.  Only our Catholic friends could.

This can only mean one thing- that pseudo-spiritual season called Lent must be approaching- that time when folk who abstain from chocolate are magically transformed into spiritual people…