The Men Who Will Influence the Conclave, 10 Steps to Start Catholic Homeschooling and More!

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The Kingmen Who Will Influence the Conclave by Giorgio Bernardelli of the La Stampa website – Big Pulpit

Ten Steps to Start {Catholic} Homeschooling – Catholic Sistas

What he Church Teaches on Infant Baptism – Joel and Lisa Schmidt, Catholic Stand

U. S. Government Tries to Block Homeschooling Refugees – Joseph Knippenberg, First Things/First Thoughts

If Only the Church Were More Episcopalian! – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Ten Things That Changed My Spirituality – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Papa Bene’s Lesson for Us this Lent – Sr. Theresa Noble, Ignitum Today

Why Lent is Forty Days? – Marcellino D’Ambrosio PhD, Integrated Catholic Cthlc Life™

U. S. Government Fighting to Deny Asylum to German Homeschool Family – Michael Farris JD LLM, LifeSiteNews

Pope To Move Crystal Cathedral To Rome? – Eye of the Tiber

Consecration to Mary – Barb Lishko, Catholic Lane

Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason – Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

Benedict XVI: Vatican II as I Saw It – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Simple English Propers and New Translation of Roman Missal – Adam Bartlett, The Chant Café

Catholics Speak Regarding Scandalous Monastery – Laetificat

A Great Man – Traditium

English Catholic History in the New World – Whiskey Catholic

Salvation Through Mary – R. Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal

Study Resource: Thomas Aquinas’s Division of Pauline Corpus in Charts – Rorate Cæli

Catholic Health Association’s Dialogue is Code for Catholic Avoidance – Jeffrey Miller, The Curt Jester

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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