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A Misplaced Grief: The Vatican and David Bowie by Fr. George W. Rutler of Crisis Magazine - Big Pulpit

Francis Effect: Drop in Confessions, Even With Jubilee – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Set Goals Worth Living For in 2016! – John C. Connell, Catholic Stand

For All Wavering Anglicans and Episcopalians: Anglicanorum Cœtibus – Fr. Z’s Blog

Saints to Help with Your New Year Resolutions – Theresa Williams, Epic Pew

An Unsustainable ‘Compromise’ on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ – Ryan T. Anderson Ph.D. & Robert P. George D.Phil., Public Discourse

The Cappa Magna in the Light of Nature, Rationality, and Mystery – Peter Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement

The Scandal of Mother Teresa – Filip Mazurczak, The Catholic Thing

An Example of St. Pio’s Mercy – Frank Rega, The Shield of Faith

The Authority of Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno – Phillip Campbell, The Distributist Review

Selling Stardom: A Christian Path to Hollywood – Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times

The Significance of China’s New Two Child Policy – Fr. C.J. McCloskey, Truth & Charity Forum

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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