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7 Books That Changed My Life by Scott Eric Alt of the Logos & Mus blog – BigPulpit.com

Philippines: Vast Super Typhoon, Devastation, Death – Fr. Z’s Blog

Adoption: More Than Just an Option - Diane McKelva, Catholic Stand

Law Gets Us There, Love Gets Us There More Quickly – Dr. Ed Peters JD, Canon Law Blog

N. T. Wright & Orthodox/Byzantine View of Hell – Byz Pulpit

Photographs from Musica Sacra Scotland’s Inaugural Event - Charles Cole, New Liturgical Movement

Regret & the Christian Life - Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Mass in a Hidden Chapel – Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Simcha Fisher Interview, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning – Bonnie Engstrom, Ignitum Today

Methodist Minister to Catholic Radio Personality – Brantly Millegan, Aleteia

Wendy Davis Is Pro-life & War Is Peace - Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Bishops Encourage Schools to Implement Living Wage – Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald

Imagining the Death Bed - Patti Maguire Armstrong, Catholic Stand

Slavery and the Bible – Steve Roney, ‘Od’s Blog!

Mary: Model of the Theological Virtues - Edward Looney, Ignitum Today

Women Religious Ask Pope for Prayer against Trafficking – Carol Glatz

Can Objective Morality Exist Without God? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Thomas Aquinas & Philosophical Realism - William M. Briggs, Statistician to the Stars!

Realism in an Age of Relativism - James P. Bernens, Crisis Magazine

God v. Just Because: Explanations for Objective Morality – Joe Heschmeyer, Strange Notions

In Medio Ecclesiae - Kathleen Pluth, The Chant Café

Why Come To Holy Mass? - Andrew McDowell, Catholic Collar and Tie

Don’t be a Cafeteria Pro-Lifer - Birgit Jones, Designs by Birgit

The Catechism of Hockey - Catholic Mom

A Catholic Politician in the Nordic Public Square – Alberto Carosa, The Catholic World Report

Pope Francis has a New “Ghost Writer” – Andrea Tornielli, Vatican Insider

The Real Survival Message-Learn to Hear The Voice of God – Saint Etheldreda's Place

We Will Remember Them - Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

Other Entitlement Monsters – God & Caesar

The Great Battle In Heaven, Like You’ve Never Seen It – Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

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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