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Catholics Should Stay Calm, Pope Francis Is Not Pressing for General Protestant Admission to Communion by Edward Condon of Catholic Herald Magazine - Big Pulpit

Only Christianity Can Rescue Europe - Michael James Nazir-Ali, Catholic Herald Magazine

Our Lady of Fatima and the Reality of Hell – Kevin Symonds, Catholic Stand

Europe’s Refugee Problem, and Ours – Ross Douthat, Evaluations Blog

New Book: A Deeper Vision of Faith and Reason – Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

It’s Not About the Results – Michele Chronister, Ignitum Today

Vatican II and Religious Freedom: Rupture or Authentic Development? – Carl E. Olson, The Catholic World Report

The Paris Attacks and Planned Parenthood: Flipsides of Death – Jason Scott Jones & John Zmirak Ph.D.

Brandon Vogt: Catholic New-Media Wiz – Zoe Romanowsky, Aleteia

Paris in Pain – Jim Bryant, Regina Magazine

Vatican Again Green Lights Using Force Against ‘Unjust Aggressor’ – John Burger, Aleteia

A Call for Better Dialogue with High Church Lutherans – E. G. Norton, Crisis Magazine

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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

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