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Dodginess in Honduras: Same-Sex Attracted Seminarians Sent Away from Seminary Except for Those from. . . - Fr. Z’s Blog+++

Why Does the Catholic Bible Have More Books? – uCatholic

God Does Care About Your Sports Team – Jean Elizabeth Seah, Ignitum Today

McCarrick Watch: Up-to-Date News on the former-Cardinal McCarrick Homosexual Predation & Cover-Up Scandal - Big Pulpit

Virtual Tour of the Spectacular Major Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore in Rome – Shaun McAfee O.P., epicPew

25 Amazing Things You Don’t Know About the Knights of Columbus – Andrew Butler, ChurchPOP

Pornography Use & Trauma for Wives – Peter Kleponis Ph.D., Those Catholic Men

The Dictatorship of Sentimentality – Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Is the Vatican Giving a Promotion to Laypeople? – Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, Catholic Herald

Providential Transfiguration – Robert P. Imbelli, First Things

You Do Not Know What You Ask; Rodrigo Duterte – Justin Bradford Smith, Crisis Magazine

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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

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