Berlin Pope Visit Almost Sold Out, U.N. Campaign of Fear, Turkey Still Anti-Christian, and more!

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Berlin Nearly Sold Out for the Pope’s Visit - Alessandro Alviani, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

. . . News.va: Program of Apostolic Trip . . .

I Hate Myself, How Can I Find Comfort in God When I Feel So Unworthy? - Father John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Missouri Late-Term Abortion Ban Becomes Law - Rebecca Millette, LifeSiteNews.com

Unfounded Population Fears Drive New UN Campaign - Terrence McKeegan J.D., Catholic Lane

. . . Stephan Phelan: Using Natural Family Planning to halt overpopulation? . . .

Despite European Union’s Human Rights Demands, Turkey’s Christian Persecution Escalates - William Oddie, Catholic Herald

Cambodia’s Genocide and Catholic Slaughter - George R. Marlin, The Catholic Thing

What the Cloyne Report Really Says - The Thirsty Gargoyle

Marcial Maciel? “I Don’t Know Him” - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Inwardly Absent Catholics - Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

U.S. National Debt: An Immoral Deception - Matt C. Abbott

Catholic College “Faith” Professor Upset about Chaput to Philadelphia - Cardinal Newman Society/Campus Notes

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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