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Do You Really Believe That? – Richard Van Kirk at Catholic Stand +1

Ask Father: Different Kinds of Holy Water – Fr. Z’s Blog +1

Did Mitt Romney Make the Wrong Decision? – David Roney at Catholic Stand

What Accounts for Western Indifference to Christian Persecution? – Ann Farmer at Mercatornet

Free Will & Evil – Noel Ethan Tan at Ignitum Today

Cafeteria Catholics & Women’s Ordination to the Priesthood – Menny Thoughts at Convert’s Quest

Surviving Sodom – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Crisis Magazine

The Lingering Problems of Ordinary Time – Michael P. Foley at New Liturgical Movement

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island Slams Pro-Abort Presidential Candidates – Micaiah Bilger at Life News

The Devil Would Like For People To Think Hell Doesn’t Exist – Michael Pakaluk, Ph.D., at First Things

Religious Freedom: An Inconvenient Right to Secularists – Ken Blackwell at The Stream

Archbishop Georg Gänswein is a “Almost a ‘Third Pope’” – Giacomo Galeazzi at La Stampa

How is the Catholic Church Spending “Peter’s Pence?” – Amanda Milkovits at Boston Globe

Why Catholics Don’t Need ‘Mindfulness’ – 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