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4 Beautiful Catholic Churches In The Coastal American South – Jim Graves at Aleteia +1

Your Next Indispensable Book for the Culture Wars – Peter Darcy at Catholic Stand +1

Liturgical Beauty From Farnborough Abbey – Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement

Hand-Made Wall Tiles With Deep Catholic Roots – Carrie Gress, Ph.D., at Favorite Catholic Things via Theology of Home

Growing in Wisdom With St. John of the Cross – Fr. Nicholas Blackwell, O. Carm., at Catholic Stand

Did You Know? There Are Patriarchs in the Western Church – Billy Ryan at uCatholic

Fr. Jack Barker, Pioneer Of The Pastoral Provision – Christopher Mahon at The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

The Church In Germany Is In A De Facto State Of Schism – George Weigel at Crisis Magazine

Cultural Demolition – Cream City Catholic

Papal Posse On The Amazon Synod – Brad Miner at The Catholic Thing

Ironies In The Fire – George Weigel at Denver Catholic

The Married Priests Debate “Reveals Engrained Clericalism” – Fr. Martìn Lasarte at Asia News

“I Just Got Spit On”: Pro-Abortion Mob Attacks Pro-Lifers on College Campus in D.C. (Video Inside) – ChurchPOP

Neocatechumenal Way Obedient In Words, While Disobeying In Deeds, & In Decline – Sandro Magister at Settimo Cielo

Aristotle’s Revenge & Naïve Color Realism – Edward Feser, Ph.D.

Pope Francis Trolls American Catholics With Fr. James Martin – Rod Dreher

Ask Father: How To Protest, Perhaps In Rome? – Fr. Z’s Blog

Bishops Urge Europeans To ‘Wake Up’ & Rediscover Christian Roots – Jonathan Luxmoore 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