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Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Epilogue - Emmet Scott, New English Review

Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit - J. C. Sanders, Ignitum Today

Are We to Take the Bible “Literally”? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Document On Business is Great! - Omar F. A. Gutierrez, Regnum Novum

World Trade Center Memorial: A Monument Without Hope - Brother Dominic Mary Verner OP, Dominicana

Historical and Current Challenge to be an American Catholic - Fr. Richard Gribble CSC, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Homs: The City Once Produced a Pope - Giorgio Bernardelli, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Orthodox Church says 90% of Christians Expelled from Homs - John Pontifex, Catholic Herald

Father, I Know You're Busy, But. . . - Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

Five Reasons Not to Have a Catholic Radio Bumper Sticker on My Car - Marissa Nichols, Theology of the Laundry

The Failure Rate of "Proven" Contraception - aka Mom, Shoved to Them

Quæritur: Too Many For Confession, Priest Gives General Absolution - Fr. Z's Blog

Why Homosexuals Think they Are Hated - Dale O'Leary, Crisis Magazine

Distorting History for Homosexual Propaganda - Dale O'Leary, Catholic Lane

Kennedy's Are Not The Center Of The Universe - The Ordinary Catholic, Peter's Barque

Reflecting on the Sins & Shortcomings of the Clergy - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Logical Thinking in Ethics: Conflict Situations & Double Effect - Doctori Veritatis, Omnia Vincit Veritas

The Mass Portrayed in Raphael's Crucifixion - David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement

Ashes of Dead Cannot be Scattered - David Kerr, CNA/EWTN News

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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