This Week

This week was filled with upheavals. In Myanmar after the cyclone, the government sought to bar aid workers, and the pressure prevented our reporter from publishing his name. In China after the earthquake, China?s government accepted foreign aid for the first time since the 1940s.

In California, the upheaval was a man-made disaster: The Supreme Court redefined ?marriage.?

Strange and startling stuff, all. But for Catholics, on the feast of Corpus Christi, we can understand it as a call to trust. God is the creator and King of the universe. He is the master of the strange and startling. And amid all the upheavals, we can be sure that his promises remain, as always, trustworthy.

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