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Refuting a Clever Denial of Jesus’ Divinity  J.P. Nunez of Catholic Stand +1

Lay Catholics: Stop Waiting for Bishops to do Your Job  Peter Wolfgang of Catholic Vote +1

The Mystery of the Our Father’s Ending  Douglas M. Beaumont of Catholic Answers Magazine +1

An Inspiring Conversion Story  Adam Rivera of Cream City Catholic

The Church Needs Children  K.E. Colombini of Crisis Magazine

Family? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Families!  Guy McClung, Ph.D., J.D., of The American Catholic

Misery Versus Poverty  Julie Machado of Catholic Stand

Suicide Rises When Faith Recedes  Brian Williams of Liturgy Guy

Pope Benedict XV Teaches How To Fundraise  Brice Sokolowksi of CatholicFundraiser.net

L’Affaire McCarrick: Soon to be “Mister”  Fr. Z's Blog

Nuns + Pink Habit = Ultimate Fashion Statement  Meghan Ashley Styling

Hilaire Belloc & the Heresy of Our Times  Casey Chalk of Public Discourse

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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