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Welcome to 1950! Surprising Stats About Parish Priests by Msgr. Charles Pope - BigPulpit.com

Humor in Defense of Virtue – Kaye DeMetz, On the Square

Get Involved in Your Church! – Molly M., Ignitum Today

Ave Verum Corpus, Josquin – Jeffrey A. Tucker, New Liturgical Movement

Finding God in a Byzantine Church – Byz Pulpit

Gay Panic Over New Russian Laws - Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine

Honest Abe and Dagger John – Donald R. McClarey JD, Catholic Stand

Judge Vindicates Cardinal Dolan, S. N. A. P. Stunt Exposed, the New York Times Remains Silent – David F. Pierre Jr., TheMediaReport.com

Roundup of Links on Christians Suffering in Egypt – BigPulpit.com

Marriage, Holy Matrimony and Hylemorphism – J. C. Sanders, Catholic Lane

The Post-Copacabana Beach Parish of World Youth Day – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Quæritur: Pontifical Mass in the Novus Ordo? – Fr. Z’s Blog

EEK! The Millennials Are Leaving the Church! - Anthony S. Layne, Catholic Stand

Test Match Cricket: Profundities That Only Great Literature Has – William Oddie, Catholic Herald

A Secret, an Eulogy, and a Prayer - Siobhan Benitez, Ignitum Today

Woody Allen and the Secret to Lasting Joy – Fr. Robert Barron, Strange Notions

The President’s Gay Military – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

How Train Cars and Set Theory Prove the Existence of God - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

I Sentences 3.4.5. – James Chastek PhL, Just Thomism

Oprah’s Witch Hunt – God & Caesar

1973 Translation, A House of Cards – Richard J. Clark, View from the Choir Loft

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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