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How Can We Ignore The Dire Statistics Surrounding The Transgender Experience? – Job Berendsen at Mercatornet +1

How Did St. Joseph Meet Our Blessed Mother? Here’s The Answer, According to Tradition – ChurchPOP +1

Communist China: Indoctrination Classes For Disobedient Catholic Clergy – Yang Xiangwen at Bitter Winter

To Boycott Or Not To Boycott – Todd Aglialoro at Catholic Answers Magazine

The Mendacity of Public Officials – Fr. George W. Rutler, S.T.D., at Crisis Magazine

Who Are Sri Lanka’s Christians? - Mathew Schmalz at Mercatornet

Restore Notre-Dame as the Spiritual Center of Paris - Joseph & Marie Meaney at Crisis Magazine

What Does The Word “Priest” Mean & Where Is It In The Bible? – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

The Tragic Hope Of The Flames Of Notre-Dame Cathedral - Jeffrey A. Mirus, Ph.D., at Catholic Culture

Are You Being Called To Be A Priest? – Jeffrey Bruno at Aleteia

The Politicization Of The European Church – Thomas D. Williams at First Things

Big Tech’s Big Problems & A Conversation With The Pinterest Whistleblower – The Federalist

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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