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The Extraordinary Story of a Young Victim Soul Who Saw Heaven & Spoke to the Blessed Mother ☩ Georgette Bechara of ChurchPOP +1

The Severed Holy Head of Saint Catherine of Siena  Billy Ryan of uCatholic

So Fun! Watch These Two Nuns Take Each Other Down in Epic Snowball Fight!  ChurchPOP

Padre Pio the True Story; Off the Shelf with C. Bernard Ruffin Pete Socks of Catholic Stand

This is a Novus Ordo Mass, the Vision Will Not Disappoint Fr. Richard Heilmann of Roman Catholic Man+1

California College to Help Catholic Revival in New England  Kelly Salomon of Newman Society

Names of Jesus – Off the Shelf 104 with Paul Thigpen  Pete Socks of Catholic Stand

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Miracles, Facts & Fancy  Donald R. McClarey, J.D., of The American Catholic

Anonymous Priests: Silence Regarding Priestly Misconduct Is a Problem  Fr. Matthew Schneider, L.C., of Through Catholic Lenses

Gay Apologist Thomas Reese to Address 2019 Los Angeles Religious Education Conference on Clergy Sex Abuse  Joseph Sciambra

A Canon Law Primer on Church Teaching Regarding “Same-Sex Marriage” Steve Ray of Defenders of the Catholic Faith

Are You A Woke Catholic?  Shane Schaetzel of Complete Christianity

Exploring Harmful Anger In & at Marriage & the Priesthood  Richard P. Fitzgibbons, M.D., of Homiletic &Pastoral Review

Preaching Coram Sanctissimo  Fr. John Hunwicke of Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Nancy Pelosi Prays “Lord Make Me a Channel for Thy Peace,” Then Votes to Fund Abortions  Lauretta Brown of Life News

Anglican & Catholic?  Charles A. Coulombe of The Anglicanorum Cœtibus Society Blog

Church on the Site of Jesus’ Birthplace Undergoes a Major Renovation  Stephen Beale of Aleteia

“Gay Lobby” in Argentina  Catholic Herald O Nach Éisdeadh  David Warren of Essays in Idleness

Cardinal Nichols Shocked to Learn Ex-Vicar General Sent 2 Abusers to the U.S. ☩ Simon Caldwell of 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