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David Horsey’s L. A. Times Cartoon Revives Ugly Anti-Catholicism by David F. Pierre of TheMediaReport.com website - Big Pulpit

Social Media Enhances Lenten Experience – Clarissa V. Aljentera, OSV Newsweekly

Tolkien, Mozart, Plato, & Everything Else with Gregorian Chant – Jacob Tawney, Catholic Stand

Catechizing Garry Wills – Nathaniel Peters, First Things/First Thoughts

Lent in a Sinless Age – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Papa Bene Comments on Dorothy Day – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

Benefits of Lent and Penance – Alexandra Reis, Ignitum Today

New Book: A Sense of the Sacred: Catholic Worship In The Middle Ages – Carl E. Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

St. Francis de Sales: Balaam’s Ass & Bodily Mortification – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

In Utroque Usu from Argentina – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Orthodox-Catholic Cooperation a New Sign of Hope – Stephen Muff, Crisis Magazine

Giving My Soul the Silent Treatment - Peter Vidani, Beloved Lily

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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