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When Pilgrims Sing, the World Disappears

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  November 4, 2025



Confession to a Priest and the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  October 12, 2025

Elon Musk Rightly Sounds the Alarm on the Global Fertility Crisis

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  September 25, 2025

The Old Gaffer: Parish Choir Director of Middle Earth

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  September 22, 2025

Charlie Kirk and His Surprising Sentiments Toward the Catholic Church

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  September 12, 2025

Prayers Are Effective—Thoughts Are Not

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  September 1, 2025

“Cracker Barrel & Catholicism” • Logos and Lessons

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  August 26, 2025

Can World Peace Get Donald Trump Into Heaven?

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  August 22, 2025

The Problem with "Themed" Masses

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  August 11, 2025

“You need ‘youthful music’ to attract the youth.” False.

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  August 1, 2025

Asking Boldly and the Generous Love of Our Father

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  July 28, 2025

Worship the Lord in Holy Attire

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  July 12, 2025

“My First Year with the Latin Mass” • A Music Director’s Perspective

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  July 4, 2025

An Homage to Fatherhood: Reclaiming the Role of Spiritual Leader in the Domestic Church

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  June 13, 2025

Can the Choir Sing Alone at Mass? Yes! And here is why that matters

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  May 25,2025

Pope Leo XIV and the Battle Against Modernity

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  May 16, 2025

It's Time We Stop Singing About Ourselves at Mass

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  February 20, 2025

This Beautiful Hymn is Sung at Every Mass

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  February 28, 2024

Celebrating 60 Years With the Baltimore Catechism

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  January 10, 2024

Encourage the Clergy to Sing

Mark Haas  |  ccwatershed.org  |  January 2, 2024

How More Parishes Can Sing the Antiphons at Mass

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  October 20, 2023

Mowing and Discipleship: Summer Lessons From My Son

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  July 11, 2023

What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Music for Mass

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  March 13, 2023

Sentimental Mass Music: A Mock State of Innocence

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  February 20, 2023

Kids Stay in Church if Dad Goes to Church

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  August 4, 2022

Top 40 "Catholic Things"!

Mark Haas  |  markhaasmusic.com  |  April 17, 2022

Catholic Misinformation is Deadly

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  August 30, 2021

Virtually Every Ancient Civilization Has a Great Flood Story

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  August 13, 2021

Let's Take the Church Back (to Vatican II)

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  July 28, 2021

The Blessed Mother and the Desolation of Smaug

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  May 5, 2021

Do you like wine? God loves wine!

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  March 2, 2021

8 Surprisingly Pro-Life quotes from Wonder Woman

Mark Haas  |  ChurchPop.com  |  July 4, 2017

Who says Catholics don't hear the Bible at Mass?

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  August 12, 2017

Why Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant in one infographic

Mark Haas  |  ChurchPop.com  |  September 19, 2017

What did Christianity look like before the Bible?

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  March 18, 2018

Did Bibles always look like Bibles?

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  January 14,  2019

One layman's response to scandal

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  July 14, 2019

Early Christians teach us how to receive the Eucharist

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  August 10, 2019

Fulton Sheen's helpful analogy for discouraged Catholics

Mark Haas  |  CatholicExchange.com  |  January 29, 2021

Create in me a clean house, O God

Mark Haas  |  Aleteia.org  |  December 16, 2020

Why Be Catholic?

Mark Haas  |  markhaasmusic.com  |  October 25, 2020

The Catholic Beliefs of Protestant Reformers

Mark Haas  |  CrisisMagazine.com  |  October 31, 2025