Front image: Jean Restout, "Pentecost," 1732 - {PD-US}: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

• "The Todah Sacrifice"
• "What the Early Church Believed: The Real Presence"
• Catechism on the Eucharist
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist

• Siena Institute, "Discerning your spiritual gifts"
• Novena to the Holy Spirit
• "Recovering the meaning of the Ascension"
• The Catholic Thing - "Discipline versus doctrine"
• Catholic Answers - Is it a doctrine or discipline?
• Gabriel Network - helping women choose life
• "Am I called?" - vocations discernment
• Evangelium vitae (On the Gospel of Life) - Pope St. John Paul II
• Voyage of Life - science shows human life begins at conception
• "The Life of the World to Come" - mp3 talk by Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P.
• "What Do the Saints Do for Eternity? The Activity of Heaven" - mp3 talk by Professor Michael Root, Catholic University of America
• "St. John Paul II: No Mercy without Truth"
• "The Limits of Mercy"
• John Paul II on vocations

"10 Facts About Fatima Every Catholic Should Know" - read this brief summary from National Catholic Register 
"A Guide to 5 Key Marian Apparitions" - read this helpful summary of Church discernment and teaching on apparitions

May 1 is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, God's answer through the Church to the threat of Marxism in the forms of Socialism and Communism. What is wrong with Marxism, and how does St. Joseph point to the true dignity of the human person and human labor? See the links below.

• "May Day: the Socialist Worker vs. St. Joseph the Worker" - a brief history of the institution of the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker
• "The Catholic Case Against Communism" - a brief summary of problems with Marxism and the Church's response
• The Devil and Karl Marx - biography of Karl Marx by Paul Kengor
• Laborem Exercens - encyclical by St. John Paul II on the dignity of human work
• In Tune with the World: a Theory of Festivity - Joseph Pieper's classic analysis of how Marxism degrades the human spirit.

Why does the Church oppose gender ideology, and why have the U.S. Bishops called upon all people of good will to oppose the Equality Act as a threat to the common good? See these resources.

• "Pope Francis Again Confronts Gender Ideology" by Paul Kengor
• Archbishop Gomez "The Church and America's New Religions"
• Bishop Burbidge "Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology"
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • "The Equality Act" - summary and a link to oppose the Act by notifying representatives
  • "Questions and Answers" - more detail and background, pdf file
• National Catholic Bioethics Center, "Gender Identity" - summaries of Church teaching
• Paul Dirks, "Transition as Treatment: The Best Studies Show the Worst Outcomes” - consequences of gender transition
• American College of Pediatricians, "Gender Confusion and Transgender Identity" - scientific research in support of Church teaching
• The New Atlantis, "Sexuality and Gender" - scientific research in support of Church teaching
• Person and Identity Project - basic truths of the human person
• Gender Resource Guide - especially helpful for parents
• Ryan Anderson, When Harry Became Sally - a best-selling response to Transgenderism, based on science, public policy, and natural law
• Margaret McCarthy, professor at St. John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C.
  • "Overruling the Visible: The Emperor's New Gender"
  • "The Slavery of Radical Freedom"