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The Heart of Bergoglio by Robert Royal of The Catholic Thing website - BigPulpit.com

Too Many Women, Too Many Pills: Books, Movies, Music - Cari Donaldson, Aleteia

The Head-Slapping Criticism of Pope Francis - Stacy Trasancos PhD

Pope Francis: Rupture vs. Change - Dr. Gerard M. Nadal, Coming Home

The La Repubblica Pope Francis Interview Roundup of Links – BigPulpit.com

Will Pope Appoint New CDW Prefect Hostile to B16s Reforms? – William Oddie, Catholic Herald

Pope Francis’s Love-based Argument for God’s Existence - J. Jaoblonski, Ignitum Today

The Immortal Sign: The Power of the Sign of the Cross – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Love Conquers All – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Bringing the ‘Catholic’ Back to a California Parish – Beverly Stevens, Regina Magazine

10 Tips for Evangelization – J. Q. Tomanek, Ignitum Today

A Paradigm Shift In The Catholic Church – Shane Schaetzel, Catholic In The Ozarks

Thrills, a Poem - Patrick Pierce, Catholic Stand

The Religious Art of Daniel Mitsui - Christina Montes, Catholic Lane

The Eighth Deadly Sin? - Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Sex and the Public Order – James Kalb, The Catholic World Report

Told He's Racist, University Student Rejects Further Diversity "Training" – BigNewsWonk.com

Morality Is Not a Biological Issue – Gerard M. Verschuuren, Strange Notions

The College Loan Racket – Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

Yes, I Am Trying to Convert You! - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Unscholarly Conduct in Scholarship – God & Caesar

It’s Rosary Month! - Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

Canon Law and False Abuse Allegations - Cathy Caridi JCL, Canon Law Made Easy

Mater Misericordiae Hospital - Bishop James D. Conley, On the Square

Blessed Karl of Austria Events in Northeast U. S., Oct. 2013 – The Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma

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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