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Coronation of the Pope with the Burning of Flax
Coronation of the Pope with the Burning of Flax (photo: New Liturgical Movement)

Papal Humiliations: The Burning of Flax – Aelredus Rievallensis, Canticum Salomonis

Genuine Faith Requires More than Niceness – Anthony M. Esolen Ph.D., Crisis Magazine

Magisterial Irresponsibility: The New Teaching on Capital Punishment – Steven A. Long, First Things

Preparing for Battle: 7 Tips From St. Paul on Evangelization – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Syncretism? Bait & Switch? A Look at Reality in the Ordinariates – Deborah Gyapong, The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

How to Get Teenagers Interested in the Faith? This Film about Pope John Paul II – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

Jesus’ Blood Type & What It May Possibly Signify – Mystics of the Church

The Rothko “Chapel” In Texas, It’s Not Christian, But Most of Ours are No Better – David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement

The Sex Scandals, Cover-ups, & Pope Francis - Big Pulpit

Weeks Before the Synod, the List is Out – Mark de Vries, In Caelo et in Terra

Don’t Be Seduced by the “Glamour of Evil” – Gregory Popcak Ph.D., Catholic Exchange

Prayer for Deliverance from Evil Through the Intercession of Mary – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

California Spent $3B for Embryonic Stem Cell Research, No Cure Still – Michael Cook, Mercatornet

Michael Curry Again – Fr. John Hunwick, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Feinstein Scandal – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

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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