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The Best in Catholic Blogging

How to Plant a Mary Garden - Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, Catholic Exchange

On the Council of Jerusalem & the Catholicity of the Early Church - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Conservatives, Catholic Liberals, & the Common Good - Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing

The Filipino Excommunication That Isn’t - Doctor Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

UK Moves Towards a Faith-Free Workplace - Peter Saunders, MercatorNet

Supreme Court to Decide on Faith Exemption in Quebec Religion Class - Brenda Branswell, National Post/Holy Post

NYC Teacher Claims She Was Harassed, Then Fired Over Her Christian Faith - Billy Hallowell

Public Education: Absurd and Corrupt at Once - Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

Daniel Maguire: ‘Preposterous & Disingenuous’ - Phil Lawler, CatholicCulture.org

Homeschoolers Sometimes: at Odds with Dioceses, Threat to Catholic Schools - Michelle Martin, Our Sunday Visitor

Quaeritur: Altar Girls Dressed as Clerics,  What to Say? - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Chelsea Handler: Had Abortion, Hostile Towards Pregnant Teens - Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com

This will be a continuing series from Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register.  This will be very similar to what you see on 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