Monday Afternoon Edition

The Importance of Christian Names - Father Roger Landry, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Understanding the Stages of Spiritual Starvation in the West - Monsignor Charles Pope, AOW

Australia: Some Priests Claim They Will Refuse to Use the New English Missal - Fr. Zuhlsdorf

US: Catholics and Presidents’ Day - Paul Kengor, Catholic Vote

For All the Sacramentals, The Vestments (Part I) - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

Behold! The Manna, the Bread from Heaven that Ever Was - Simcha Fisher, Patheos

Concerns, Calls for Clarification on the Summorum Pontificum - Carl Olson, Insight Scoop

Tradition Works!  Religious Sisters See Explosion In New Postulants - The Catholic Knight

Traditionalists are Nothing More Than Second Class Trash - Richard Collins, Lnn on the Hdgrw

Blessed John Henry Newman’s Assent of Faith - Juan R. Vélez, First Things/On The Square

This is a new feature for the National Catholic Register that I will be contributing on a regular basis twice a day, Monday through Saturday.  Very similar to what I do for ThePulp.it.

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