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Latest Buzz on the Summorum Pontificum ‘Clarification’ - Father Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

How Much Ruin is in a Nation?: The Spain of Philip IV - Christopher S. Johnson, First Things/On The Square

From the Question Box: “Scandals and the Church” - Pat McNamara

Libyan Enlisted to Aid the Advance of Christianity! - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Do Beautiful Churches Produce Vocations? - Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

You Want Beauty? Find It in the Liturgy. - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

For Your Lenten Friday Night at The Movies II - Allison Salerno, Why I Am Catholic

How Catholic Is Of Gods and Men? Part 3 - Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register

Why We Abstain from Meat, But Not from Fish or Wine - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Our Lady of Kazan & American Pluralism - Peter Berger, The American Interest/Peter Berger Blog

Rules for a Internet Catholic Debate - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

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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