Look East for the Future of the New Evangelization? Instruments of Peace, Downton Abbey, and More!

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The Future of the New Evangelization? Look East – Dc. Greg Kandra, Patheos/The Deacon’s Bench

Needed Instruments of Peace – Sr. Lisa Marie Doty FDCC, Ignitum Today

Downton Abbey’s Anti-Catholic Plot by Tim Walker – Big Pulpit

St. Nicodemus and Renewal – Ric Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal

St. Kateri Tekakwitha: Lily of the Mohawks – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church – St. Elias. . .Today!

Bp. Olmsted Removes “Catholic” Status from Another Phoenix Hospital – Fr. Z’s Blog

Eucharistic Theology and Altar Servers – J. Andrews, Prayer of St. Ephrem

The Person and the Personal: Two Modes of the Same Being – Don DeMarco PhD, Truth and Charity Forum

Conscience and Cicero Under Siege – Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

The Hidden Holiness of Charles Gobinet – Christopher J. Lane, Crisis Magazine

More on Concelebration – Fr. Z’s Blog

Lumen Christi Missal Cantor Scores, Free Downloads Now Online – Adam Bartlett, The Chant Café

Two Bishops, Two E.F. Masses, Two Assumption Churches – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

When Cultural Radicals Speak of “Diversity” They Mean No Such Thing – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Is it Morally Permissible to Vote for a Pro-Abort Candidate? – Dc. Mike Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life™

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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