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Communion on the Tongue and Pope St. Leo the Great - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

What’s So Great About Catholicism? - H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine

The Pope who Persuaded Attila the Hun to Spare Rome - Catholic Herald

The “Other Girls” - Rachel Howell, VirtuousPla.net

A President’s Prayer and Today’s Culture Wars - The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Dan Burke’s Journey Home - Catholic Spiritual Direction

The Pope’s Aching Joints; The Vatican’s Odd Silence - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Financial “Note” Blowback, Peace Office Under Lockdown - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

What’s the State Interest in Promoting Gay Marriage? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

What’s at Stake in Conscience Debate - Our Sunday Visitor

CNN’s ‘Belief Blog’: Good Catholics Accept Homosexuality - Paul Wilson, NewsBusters

Leo the First: 1550 Years Old & Still Affecting You Today - Stephen Masty, TIC

‘Diversity Is the Hallmark of Our Nation’ - New Oxford 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