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Stallone & Pope Gregory IX, Together at Last - Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Robot Armies: The Morals & Principles of Future Warfare - Ryan Kraeger, Ignitum Today

The Catholic Response to President Obama on Same-Sex Marriage - The Pulpit

3 Arguments Atheists Aren’t Allowed To Use Anymore - Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic

The First Gay President - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage - Richard Aleman, The Distributist Review

Gay Activist Attacks Pope Benedict - Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine

The Harvest is Plentiful But the Laborers Are Few - Paul Kokoski, Crisis Magazine

Recalling the Glories of the Faith - F. Douglas Kneibert, New Oxford Review

Why Is Catholic Music Such a Mess? - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Clinton: Promotion of "Gay Rights" is Foreign Policy Priority - Catholic Culture/Catholic World News

I am too Tired to Focus in Prayer, What can I Do? - Dan Burke, Catholic Spiritual Direction

People do Business with People They Like - Stephen Flemings, Solidarity with Salisbury

Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay "Marriage" Extremist Wins French Election - Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews

Our Allotted Time is the Passing of a Shadow: The Modernist Fallacy - B. Pursell, Crisis

Lessons from the Book of Exodus: Centrality of the Liturgy & Orthopraxis - Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

The Pill for Nuns? Here's a Better Idea - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

George Weigel: English Bishops Using Wrong Strategy in Marriage Battle - Catholic News Agency

It's a Baby When We Want it to Be - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Our "Catholic" Schools are in a Terrible State - Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

Consequentialism in Chemical Purity - New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

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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