Catholic Bloggers Guild, Chastity, Blessed John Paul II, The Real William Shakespeare, and more!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

The True Catholic Shakespeare? Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford - S. A. Mann

Overthrowing the Tyranny of Language - Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Children Astray in the American Regime - Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

Blessed John Paul II:  Feast Day and Collect - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Spiritual Direction is Not a Catholic Self-Help Program - Catholic Spiritual Direction

Cut to the Chaste - Elizabeth, Startling the Day

A Guild of Catholic Bloggers, What Do You Think? - A Reluctant Sinner

Mo Ghile Mear: “He is my Ceasar, Gallant Darling” - Tribunus, Roman Christendom

Psalm 101, Part 3, In the World but Not of It: the Duties of the Laity - Kate Edwards

A Modern-Day Hermit - Margaret Cabaniss, InsideCatholic

On the Connection between Greed, Theft & Sexual Immorality - Msgr. Charles Pope

Cardinal Zen: Vatican Officials Have Blocked Pope’s Plan for Chinese Church - B. Mann

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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