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Andy Warhol, Same-Sex Attracted and Catholic by Marc Barnes of the Bad Catholic blog – Big ulpit

Recovering a Culture that is Genuinely Catholic – Arland K. Nichols, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

The Conscience of a Catholic – Anne Hendershott and Christopher White, The Catholic Thing

Heresy in Education – Jake Tawney, Roma Locuta Est

Ethos of a Catholic School – Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in Education

Formal and Material Cooperation – Fr. Brian Thomas Becket Mullady, Truth & Charity Forum

Why Do We Need Faith? – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Ten Practices for the Year of Faith – J. Q. Tomanek, Ignitum Today

If You Want a Personal Relationship With Jesus, Become a Catholic – Jason, The Roman Road

The Church’s Nature as Explained by Vatican II – Fr. Robert John Araujo SJ, Mirror of Justice

Frank Marshall Davis: Obama’s Communist Mentor on the Catholic Church – Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine

U.S. Bishops: Biden Lied – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Second Vatican Council on Sacred Liturgy – Esther G., A Catholic Mom in Hawaii

Could it Be That Jesus Had a Wife? – Deacon Nathan Haverland, Shameless Popery

Newly Composed Gregorian Chant at Papal Mass – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

What Did Boston Archdiocesan Official Advise Mario Cuomo for the 1984 Notre Dame Speech? – Boston Catholic Insider

Quæritur: Mixed Marriage and the Traditional Latin Mass – Fr. Z’s Blog

University of Michigan Student Blasts the Hook-Up Culture – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Hobbits in Lancashire – Joseph Pearce, StAR/Ink Desk

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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