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Guidelines for Giving. . .Even When You’re Broke – Zoe Saint-Paul, SlowMama

The Next Best Thing to Monastic Life – Devin Rose, Ignitum Today

How Infallible Is the Magisterium? – Anthony Rosselli, Until We Rest in Thee

Distractions at Mass – Fr. John Bartunek, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

Pope Leo XIII: Taxing the Rich Does Not Help the Poor – Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing

Messianic Prophecies: Jonah 2:1 – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Former Episcopal Priest Grateful to Pope for Catholic Ordinariate – Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency

What Is Marriage? – Shawn Murphy, MercatorNet

Prudential Study Shows LGBT Wealth – Austin Ruse, First Things/First Thoughts

“Roman” Catholic? – Cruce Signati

Catholic Teaching is Not Determined by Opinion Polls – Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Can the Boston Archdiocese “Prepare the Way of the Lord”? – Boston Catholic Insider

Another Clear Example of How SNAP Misleads the Public – David F. Pierre Jr., The Media Report

Quæritur: Winter Solstice Mass? – Fr. Z’s Blog

J. R. R. Thomas Chesterton of Hippo? – Francis J. Beckwith, Catholic World Report

Searching for Saint Utopia’s – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Patheos

The Nightmare Before Christmas and the True Meaning of Advent – Andrew J. Ratelle, The Distributist Review

The Retreat Police – The Larry D, Acts of the Apostasy

The Advent Massacre By The Natchez Indians: Jesuit Beheaded – Joseph Fromm, Good Jesuit Bad Jesuit

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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