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Put Not Your Trust in Princes—or in Princesses – Karl Keating, Catholic Answers

Poverty Versus Simply Being Poor – Dan Byron, Catholic Stand

Indiana Mayor Draws Criticism for Renaming Good Friday – Catholic News Agency

Striving For Sainthood – Karen Reep, Catholic Stand

Why Famed Atheist Stephen Hawking is on a Pontifical Academy – Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency

Loneliness and Communion – Jean Elizabeth Seah, Ignitum Today

Catholic Ties to the American Public Order Continue to Unravel – Kenneth L. Grasso, Crisis Magazine

A Moral Case for Abortion? – Fiorella Nash, The Catholic World Report

French National Assembly Approves Bill Outlawing Some Pro-Life Websites – Catholic Herald

Some Wage Sanity – Jack Quirk, The Distributist Review

Unity with Anglicans would Take Miracle of Epic Proportions: Stephen Walford Interview – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

The Impoverished Faith of the San Diego Diocese Led by Bishop Robert W. McElroy – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

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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