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Why Our Church is in Decline – Fr. Bill Peckman, Roman Catholic Man

The Power in a Penance – John Buri Ph.D., Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Pictures: Three Women Consecrated as Virgins in Rare Ceremony in Detroit – Catholic News Service via Catholic Herald

St. Benedict and the Spirit of Community – Jessica Archuleta, Catholic Exchange

Should Catholics Stop Opposing Homosexual Behavior? – Karlo Broussard, Catholic Answers Magazine

Immigration in the Spotlight with L.A. Mass, Resource Website – Catholic News Agency via The Catholic World Report

How This Pagan Philosopher Became a Saint – Laura Ricketts, epicPew

For The Cardinal-Prefect, “My Day in Court” – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

A Catholic Identity Movement – Shane Schaetzel, Catholic in the Ozarks

Capital Campaign Fundraising, the 3 Factors of Success – Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net

The Necessity of Limbo: A Response to Nicholas Senz – Alan Fimister, Catholic Herald

Bocelli Sings “The Lord’s Prayer” – J-P Muno, Aleteia

China’s Catholics: Perseverance Under Peter – Anthony E. Clark Ph.D., The Catholic World Report

Will Fr. Charles Engelhardt’s Prosecutor Take a Plea Deal? – Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, These Stone Walls

How the Catholic Church Complicates Our Politics – David Mills, Aleteia

Of Mice and Men, SHEEFs and Chimeras – Mary Pesarchick, Catholic Stand

Developing a Canon, Schema for Art for Roman Rite, Part IIPart IIIPart IV, Part V, & Part VI – David Clayton, Beauty of Catholicism

Raising Lion Cubs for the Caliphate – William Kilpatrick Ph.D., 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