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The Prodigal Son: A Lenten Story – Deacon Greg Lambert, Catholic Stand

The Rich Treasure of the Monastic Life – Jim Graves, The Catholic World Report

Understanding Our Dustiness – Larabeth Miller, Ignitum Today

Lenten Thoughts From Kipling – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Atheists Bring Down a Historic Cross in Santa Clara, California – Roseanne Sullivan, Catholic Pundit Wannabe

Will He Find Faith on This Earth? – Stephanie H. To, Catholic Stand

Sacred Art Gallery Opens in Scottsdale, Arizona – Deacon Lawrence, Beauty of Catholicism

Cardinal Nichols Consecrates England and Wales to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – Catholic Herald

Answers to “Dubia” from Vatican! About the Traditional Latin Mass and Overly Restrictive Bishops – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

An Anti-Catholic Who Sought to Undermine the Catholic Church, Is Now Hired by the Washington Post – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

How to be a Pervert – Edward Feser Ph.D.

How Christian are the First Family? – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith Ph.D., Catholic Herald

Hermit of Loreto’s 1980s Premonition About Future President Donald J. Trump - Fr. Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man

Welcoming Those Who “Prefer” Fornication to Marriage – Brian Williams, Liturgy Guy

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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