A Case For Classical Education, Women: More Catholic Physicians Follow Church Teaching, and More!

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A Case for Classical Education – Andrew Seeley and Elisabeth R. Sullivan, First Things/On The Square

Good News for Women as More Catholic Physicians Follow Church Teaching – Arland Nichols, Crisis Magazine

He’s Married? Q and A on Married Priests – Priest’s Wife, Fear Not Little Flock

Pope St. Pius X and Frequent Holy Communion – Stephanie Mann, Pray the Mass.org

Why This Catholic Girl Is Praying for a Schism by Marc Barnes of the Bad Catholic blog on the Patheos website – Big ulpit

The Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction – Dorian Speed, Dappled Things

Never Give Up – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Catholic New Media Conference: What I Learned – Julie D., Happy Catholic*

New Life for October Baby - Patti Maguire Armstrong, Catholic Lane

Bishop Athanasius Schneider and New Karaganda Cathedral – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Confession of a Former Zygote – J. Q. Tomanek, Ignitum Today

Six Things You Should Know about the Melkite Catholic Church – C. L. Davis, Saint Peter's List

Selfishness - Becky Ward, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Development of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Biblical Canon – J. Andrew, Prayer of Saint Ephrem

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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