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If You Build Confessionals, People Will Come & Use Them – Fr. Z’s Blog

The Early Church: Being Called Catholic by Matthew Heinrich of the In and Out of the Ditch blog - Big Pulpit

How the Church Built Western Sacred Music – Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo CSJ, Catholic News Agency

On the Darkness – Sean Connolly, Ignitum Today

Trappist Nuns Will Not Abandon Their Monastery In Syria – Catherine Harmon, The CWR Blog

Being Catholic Isn’t an Excuse for Bad Writing – Edmund Mitchell, Catholic Stand

Solemn Requiem of Dom Philip Anderson, OSB in Melbourne – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Drive-By Theology - Paul McCusker, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

The 2 Beasts in Revelation, What Do They Represent? – Taylor Marshall PhD, Canterbury Tales

Book Review: Imitating Mary – Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur, Catholic Lane

Life, Like Baseball, Demands Order - Donald DeMarco PhD, Crisis Magazine

Pope Francis on Same-Sex 'Marriage' and More - Big Pulpit

Benedict May Have Some Feline Company in the Vatican – John Thavis, Decoding the Vatican

Memoirs of a Nihilist, or What I Learned in College – Lorraine Murray, Integrated Catholic Life™

Their Martyr'd Blood – Matthew Cantirino, First Things/First Thoughts

Christians and Muslims, Living Together – Fr. Samir Khali Smair SJ, Ignatius Insight Scoop

On Kermit Gosnell & Facing Human Evil [Update] – Scott Alt, Logos & Muse

House of Horrors – The Road What is Adultery? – Fr. O, An Irish Ordinariate

The New Era of Religious Liberty – Gerald J. Russello, The Catholic Thing

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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