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The Best in Catholic Blogging

World Youth Day 2013, set for Rio de Janeiro - Gianni Valente, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

How Christians Become Atheists - Randy, Speaking the Truth in Love

Sexual Revolution: Built Upon Sand - Anthony Esolen, Public Discourse

A Mean Age For Youthful Sex - Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet

Resurgent Church Architecture - D Mac, Creative Minority Report

Movies, Beauty, Truth, and Swear Words - Tony Rossi, Patheos

Report:  Vatican Announces Plan For Another New Translation - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Purgatory and Ghosts - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Revealing, Truth-Assaulting Sentence of the Day: End of Gender - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

The Natural Law - Doctor Jeff Mirus, CatholicCulture.org/On the Culture

Rosminian Sex Abuse Scandal: Shamed by BBC in Issuing Bad Apology - Damian Thompson, The Telegraph

Bishop Warns of “Impending Genocide in Sudan” - Catholic Lane

Planting Trees Instead of Going to Confession - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

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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