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He was a Runner for the Japanese Mafia, Now He’s a Catholic Priest – Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency

The Atheist Heart of Darkness – Felix Whelan, Catholic Stand

Leading Assyrian Christian: Now is the Last Chance to Protect Us – Stephen Herreid, Catholic Vote

Have You Talked to Your Angel Today? – Anne Marie Miller, Ignitum Today

Catholic Bioethicists can Help with Murky Moral Issues – Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency

What Will You Do When the Persecution Comes? – Anthony Esolen Ph.D., Crisis Magazine

Religion in Public? Our Modern Political Stupor – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D., Catholic Culture

I Think I am a ___, Therefore I am a ___.” – John Lawrence Hill, The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

Things We Wish Old Testament Characters Said – Laura Hensley, epicPew

William Byrd and the Beckoning of Beauty – Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

The Antiquity of Liturgical Tradition – An Example from the Ambrosian Rite – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

Nothing has Changed at the Society of Christian Philosophers in the U.S. – Edward Feser Ph.D.

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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