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A ‘True’ Jesuit Passes Away - Therese Rita, Zeal

Full Fathom Five - Calah Alexander, VirtuousPla.net

Catholic Church Seeks To Ban Women . . . Forever!!! - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Diocese of Phoenix Statement: No More Altar Girls at Phoenix’s Cathedral - California Catholic Daily

Converts to Catholicism Continuing to Decline; What to Do - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Clergy Banned from 9/11 New York City Ceremony - Bill Donohue, Catholic League

Bishop Jenky: State of Illinois At War with Catholic Church - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Uphold Conscience Protection: Religious Freedom’s Contribution to the American Experience and Threats to its Survival - Helen Alvaré, Public Discourse

How the Eastern Half of the Church Used to View the Pope - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Traditional Latin Mass in Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin: A Growing Minority - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Masses - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Video: Where Does the Catholic Mass Come From? - JimmyAkin.org

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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