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Priests, Monks, Religious, & a Monastery
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When Did Priestly Celibacy Begin Anyway? – Donald S. Prudio, Aleteia

Is the Road to Hell Paved with the Skulls of Priests? – Trent Horn, Catholic Answers Magazine

Don’t Get Trapped By Negativity – Brother Joseph Graziano O.P., Catholic Exchange

The Strange Reason Why Every Goodbye “Begins” with God – Billy Ryan, uCatholic

A Marian Altarpiece in High Renaissance Style – 

Fr. James Martin is Not Thinking with the Church – Fr. Steve Mattson, The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

Who’s in the Running for Cafod’s Top Job? – Dan Hitchens, Catholic Herald

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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