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Parish Starts ‘Ad Orientem’, Parishioner Whines, Pastor Responds - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

How Catholic Culture can Thrive on the Internet – Catholic News Agency via The Catholic World Report

12 Promises from the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Steven J. Rummelsburg, Integrated Catholic Life™

The Creative Catholic: John C. Wright – K.V. Turley, The Catholic World Report

Quæritur: Holding Hands or the “Orans” Position During the Our Father – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

This Beautiful Church was a Gift from Slovakia to Icelandic Catholics – Catholic News Agency via The Catholic World Report

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal Party It Up in Celebration of Pontifical Designation – Aleteia

101 Places to Pray Before You Die – Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

If Jesus Had No Sin, Then Why Was He Baptized? Here’s the Radical Answer – ChurchPop

Rise in Priest Suicides Prompts Call for Helpline in Ireland – Catholic News Agency

Tens of Thousands Join Rally for Life in Ireland – Corinna Turner, Catholic Herald

St. Teresa of Avila’s Demonic Experience that Proved the Power of Holy Water – ChurchPop

No Matter What Their Detractors Say, Convent Schools Provided a Great Education – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

On the Road to Sainthood: Family of 9 Murdered for Hiding Jews in Poland – Dominika Cicha, Aleteia

Sending Books to the Future – Jim Dougherty, Catholic Stand

What was Daily Life Like in Ancient Israel? – Zelda Caldwell, Aleteia

That Vital Analogy of Being – Fr. Mark A. Pilon, The Catholic Thing

What Kind of Thing is Authority? – John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine

The Long Shadow of Neoscholastic Reductionism – Peter A. Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement

Three Feasts and Contraception – John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine

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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