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How Should I Prepare for Advent? - Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Quæritur: Does Coffee Break the Eucharistic Fast? - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

That Ginormous Catholic Family Circus - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

New Yorkers May Get to ‘Choose Life’ - Mary DeTurris Poust, OSV Daily Take

New Media and the 2011 Fall General Assembly - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

First American Saint - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

St. Joseph Pignatelli, Restorer of the Jesuits - Archbishop Terry, The Journey of a Bishop

Free Enterprise & the Church: Morality of Business & Work - Fr. John Flynn LC, Crisis Magazine

What Does it Mean to Fear the Lord? - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Dealing with Disappointment - Joseph Koss, VirtuousPla.net

Underpopulation: The Real Problem - Michael J. Miller, Catholic World Report

Immigrants, Legal & Illegal - Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

Bishops’ Resignations Continue in Ireland - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

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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