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Play Ball! On Faith and Baseball – George J. Galloway, The Dispatch

Laugh and Grow Strong – Melanie Jean Juneau, Catholic Stand

Pope Asks Bishops To Set Up New Charities To Mark Year of Mercy – Cindy Wooden, Catholic Herald

Making A Murderer, Loving the Guilty – Nic Davidson, Ignitum Today

The Truth Is Rarely Safe – Francis J. Beckwith Ph.D., The Catholic Thing

A Rome Story – Cecily Lowe, Catholic Stand

Regensburg Revisited: Ten Years Later, A West Still in Denial – Samuel Gregg Ph.D., The Catholic World Report

Update on Reginald Foster’s ‘Ossa Latinitatis Sola’, Request for Old Ludi Domestici – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

The Scandal of the Particular: The Christian Essence of Human Culture – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D., Catholic Culture

John Allen and His Odd Statement on Summorum Pontificum - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

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In Praise of Irregularity – Peter Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement

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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