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One Rule To Follow To Grow In Holiness - Thomas Clements, Ignitum Today

Someone Just Made Praying Novenas Ridiculously Easy, An app! - Shaun McAfee O.P., epicPew

Dioceses Struggle to Pay Priests’ Pensions – Brian Fraga, OSV Newsweekly

An Apologia for Deviancy? – John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine

Discovering the Transformational Love of Christ – Anne DeSantis, Catholic Stand

How to Survive Summer if You’re a Lonely Catholic – Brooke Gregory, epicPew

The Immaculate Heart of Mary – Ray Sullivan, Catholic Stand

Rogue Priest, Mexico’s George Washington – Beverly Stevens, Regina Magazine

The Earliest Known Marian Prayer from A.D. 250 – Daniel Esparza, Aleteia

The Lesson of Chilcot: We Need Just War Theory More than Ever – Aaron Taylor, Catholic Herald

Richard Posner: Ignore the Constitution – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Wherein Pope Francis and Cardinal Burke Agree about ‘Amoris Lætitia – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, 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