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President of Atheist Group Resigns, Converts to Catholicism by Leah LeMoine – Big ulpit

☪☮E✡¡☯✝ence and the Truth Solution – Katy Holland, Fide Et Literis

Lust and Our Common Good: Four Observations by St. Thomas Aquinas – H. H. Ambrose, Saint Peter's List

The Need To Improve Liturgical Music – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

I Am My Daughter’s Protector – Joel Schmidt, The Practicing Catholic

Learning How to See Again – Daniel McInerny, First Things/On the Square

The Story Of Us – Brianna Heldt, Ignitum Today

Pope Benedict XVI on Sacred Liturgy: Can’t be Amended by “Experts” – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Redeeming Jealousy – Brother Charles Shonk OP, Dominicana

Married Love: Meant to Last (Mark 10:1-16) - Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Priest Who Wrote the Big Bang Theory Shatters Faith and Science Stereotype – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Quæritur: Does Kneeling for Communion Show a “Spirit of Disobedience”? – Fr. Z’s Blog

Italians Slipping in Curia – Sandro Magister, La Repubblica/www.chiesa

Campaign 2012: America and the World – George Weigel, First Things/On The Square

Was St. Robert Bellarmine Ahead of His Time? – Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Planned Parenthood Has 80-Year-Old Woman Arrested for Praying – Steven Ertelt, Life News

Expertise and Ethics – Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

The High Costs Of Militant Gay Rights Polemics – Dan Flaherty, Catholic Vote

Muhammad: Man or Myth? – J. Mark Nicovich PhD, Catholic World Report

Leading Homosexual Rights Advocate Arrested on Child Pornography – Johanna Dasteel, LifeSiteNews

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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