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Catholic Bloggers Christmas Wish List - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

The Call of a Lifetime - Joe Sales, Ignitum Today

Beautiful Christmas Vigil in City Centre makes Pro-Life Message Heard - Youth Defence

“Smells & Bells” - California Catholic Daily

Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, OP, Rest In Peace - Bp. Paul D. Etienne, Truth in Love

Is There Something Attached to Your Giving? - Randy Hain, Integrated Catholic Life™

Traditional Marriage Supporter Blacklisted from Teaching at College - Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Bp. Alexander Sample: Contraception a Clear Factor in Church Decline - Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com

Obama At the University of Notre Dame was “Trojan Horse” - Cardinal Newman Society

Evelyn Waugh Preferred a Priest’s Humble Absorption in a Low Mass. . . - Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

The Revised Roman Missal: A Mass of Potential - Louie Verrecchio, RA

A Not So Good Catholic Governor - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

When Seconds Count - Daniel Allott, Catholic World Report

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Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis