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Could This be The Bible You’ve Been Waiting For? - Pete Socks, Catholic Stand+++

The Troops of St. George: A Superior Option to the Boy Scouts of America – Cream City Catholic+

Young People Want the Authentic Faith – Nicholas LaBanca, Catholic Stand

How Churches Commit Institutional Suicide – David Carlin, The Catholic Thing+

New Reports on the Sex Abuse Scandals & Cover-ups - Big Pulpit

The Lourdes Miracle That Brought a Nobel Prize-winning Doctor to Faith – Lindsay Rudegeair, Aleteia

The Prodigal Son: Learning Our Father’s Scandalous Love – Dan Byron, Catholic Stand

Fornication is a Serious Sin that Can Exclude Us From Heaven – Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

The Prodigal Daughter – Kat Larson, Ignitum Today

What is an Annulment, Really? – María Álvarez de las Asturias, Aleteia

St. John Paul II & Science: A Quest for Common Understanding – Robert Kurland Ph.D., The American Catholic

The Contradiction of “Pro-Choice but Not Pro-Abortion” – Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Integrated Catholic Life™

How to Fundraise, Without the Heavy Lifting – Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net

Donatism & Pennsylvania: How an Ancient Controversy Can Help Us Today – Fr. Patrick Briscoe O.P., Aleteia

Exorcism in Britain Today – K.V. Turley, Crisis Magazine

“I’ll Take ‘25,000 Words of Blah Blah & Landmines’, for 200, Please, Alex!” – Fr. Z’s Blog+

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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German Bishops Resist Push to Install Permanent ‘Synodal Council’

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved the statutes for a synodal committee; and there are reports that the synodal committee will meet again in June.

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