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What Guys Need to Know about Women – Marge Fenelon, Catholic Lane

How a Catholic Emperor Banned the Olympic Games – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

The Transfiguration: Raphael’s Deathbed Masterpiece – Kathy Schiffer, Patheos/Seasons of Grace

The Chick-fil-A Aftermath – Big ulpit

Why the Formation of the Soul and Education of the Soul are Distinct – Mary Walker, Truth & Charity

Flannery O’Connor and the Hardest Lesson of All – Lorraine Murray, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Devil’s Most Effective Foe by Christopher Check of Crisis Magazine – Big ulpit

The Angelicum Academy Brings the Study of the Great Books Online – Catholic World Report

Anita Goulden: The Angel of Piura – Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews

Dear Pro-Choice NYer, You Got What You Asked For – Stacy Trasancos PhD, The American Catholic

Seal Depicting Samson Discovered (Or Maybe Not) – Tom McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

What International Priests have to Offer U.S. Parishes – Michelle Martin, OSV Newsweekly

Remembering A Hero From Africa – Godwin Delali Adadzie, Ignitum Today

The Integrity of the Priestly State of Life – Fr. Andreas Hoeck, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

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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