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Stop Trying to Make Church Fun, It’s About Something More Important – ChurchPop

Importance of Liturgical Beauty – Shawn R. Tribe, Liturgical Arts Journal

Why Women Can’t Be Catholic Priests – Fr. Dwight Longenecker

The Canaanite Woman: Was Jesus Prejudiced? – Nicholas LaBanca, Catholic Stand

Profits at Service of People: The Core of Catholic Business Ethics – Fr. Thomas More Garrett O.P., The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

When Virtue Becomes Vice & Vice Becomes Virtue – Chase Padusniak, Jappers & Janglers

You Are a Thief & a Murderer – Ben Butera, The American Catholic

Beatitudinem Quaerens – a Joyful Album of Modern Latin Hymns – Jean Elizabeth Seah, Ignitum Today

Adversity & Its Immense Value – Alan Scott, Catholic Exchange

Learning Wisdom From The Simplicity of Children – Alyssa Morrisroe, Catholic Stand

Fatherless Shooters. . .as Secularists Push for Fatherless Families – Paul G. Kengor Ph.D., Crisis Magazine

Incardination? – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Madrid Churches Attacked on International Women’s Day – Catholic Herald

The Strange Feminist Silence on Islam – Matthew Hanley, The Catholic Thing

How Bad was the Three Days of Darkness This Year? – Fr. Z’s Blog

The Tale of Two Priests’ Videos: Fr. Mike Schmitz & Fr. James Martin – One Mad Mom

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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