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Stop Blaming the Bishops by a Catholic in Brooklyn – Big Pulpit

Mascara, Paul Ryan and Me – Cheryl Dickow, Catholic Lane

How Do You Help Someone Who Suffers with Severe Anger? – Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Along the Journey Home – Rebekah Durham Hart, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Allure Of the Crunchy Catholic – Stephanie Calis, Ignitum Today

Blessed John Paul II and the Christ-Centered Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes – Douglas Bushman, Catholic World Report

Believers Lose Their Faith In The Religion Of Big Government – Dave Hartline, The American Catholic

Lourdes Flooded, with Pictures – Mulier Fortis

Godless Secularism Assaults Life and Liberty – Archbishop William Lori, Crisis Magazine

The Papal Fanon is Back and Some Notes on The Canonization Rite – Augustinus, Rorate Cæli

St. Francis, Part I? – Wake Up and Smell the Incense

Ordinations at Clear Creek Abbey (with lots of pics) – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Costanzo Festa, Super Flumina Babylonis – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Being and Delight – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Catholics Stage First Event at Crystal Cathedral – California Catholic Daily

The Latest Vatican Official to Suffer "Promotion-Removal" Under Pope Benedict XVI – Andrea Tornielli, 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

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