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After Falling From Purity, Pray This Prayer Of Repentance – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia +1

Why Do We Call It Mass? – Joannie Watson at Integrated Catholic Life™ +1

The Seminarians Aren’t OK, Here’s What You Can Do About It – Jennifer Roback Morse at The Stream

Reclaiming Church History – Pete Socks at Catholic Stand

Recommended Vestment Makers – Fr. B. Jerabek, J.C.L., at Dilexi decorem domus Domini

Embracing ‘Memento Mori’ Year-Round – Brian Fraga at Our Sunday Visitor

Reading The Signs Of Our Times – Carlos Caso-Rosendi

Jesus & The Mysteries Of The Dead Sea Scrolls – Shane Kapler at Catholic Exchange

Newman Among the Pachamamas – Michael Pakaluk at Crisis Magazine

Idols v. Statues – Shane Schaetzel at Complete Christianity

Hauntings, Possessions, & Exorcisms (Video) – Adam Blai at Patrick Coffin Online

Eternity – Kat Larson at Ignitum Today

Catholicism & Modernity, Reconsidered, & “Renarrativized” – Carl E. Olson at The Catholic World Report

In the One Family of God – Barbara Padolina at Catholic Stand

The Overstated Collapse of American Christianity – Ross Douthat at The New York Times

A Vital Document In Defense Of Clerical Celibacy – Francis Phillips at Catholic Herald

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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