News on the Summorum Pontificum, Is Marriage About What's Best for Children, and much more...

The Best of Catholic Blogging

News about the Instruction on Summorum Pontificum - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

A Moribund Mass…: Modernism is a la carte - Nicholas Postgate Ph.D., The Latin Mass

Is Marriage About Civil Rights or Is It About What Is Best For Children? - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

The Vicious Circle of the Self-Perpetuating Crises of Belief & Worship - Carl Olson, Insight Scoop

Sight and Vision in Worship - Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

International Woman’s Day: Three Ways of Dying - Michael Cook, MercatorNet

Catholic Health Saints, Catholic Health Association - Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

Shahbaz Bhatti’s Assassins Speak - Lisa Graas

Christianity the Reason for West’s Success, Say the Chinese - Tom O’Gorman, Iona Institute

A Strange Coexistence in Iraq - Brooke Anderson, Catholic News Service

The Sex-Abuse Crisis: More Revelations, More Misconceptions - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Cath News Watch; Fighting the New Missal Again! - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

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