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Fostering Young Vocations - Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement+++

These Groups Support Gay 'Marriage' While Backing a Cake Baker’s First Amendment Rights – Elizabeth Slattery & Kaitlyn Finley, Mercatornet

More Reasons to Support a Celibate Priesthood - Michael Warren Davis, Crisis Magazine

3 Simple Ways to Start Advent Traditions With Your Kids – Sarah Johnson, Aleteia

Seeing the Sign: A Reversion Story – Cynthia Millen, Catholic Stand

Analyzing Climate Change – Ben Butera, The American Catholic

The Old Testament & the Karate Kid – Elizabeth Jean Seah, Ignitum Today

5 Quotes from St. Therese of Lisieux for a Fruitful Advent – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

Pro-Choicers Think Abortion Debate Over; Out of Touch with Public – Michale Wee, Catholic Herald

From Forgiveness to Forgetness – Michele Boyer, Catholic Stand

Tests Show Jesus’s Tomb Date Back to Ancient Roman Era – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Pope is Right: Bishops Must Be at Centre of Annulments Process – Ed Condon, Catholic Herald

The Holy Spirit for Our Times – Suellen Brewster, Catholic Stand

Ghanaian Bishops’ Amoris Lætitia Statement is Silent on Communion – Catholic Herald

Archdiocese of Washington, DC, Sues DC Metro Over Christmas Advertisements – Chloe Langr, epicPew

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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