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C. D. W.: A Faithful Celebration of the Liturgy Makes For a Faithful and Holy People of God – Kathleen Pluth, The Chant Café

So You Want to be a Deaconess? – Joel and Lisa Schmidt, Catholic Stand

Proclaiming Christ Through Catholic Radio – Jim Graves, The Catholic World Report

Kids These Days: Introducing YOUCATholic.com – T. J. Burdick, Ignitum Today

Video: Abbot Zielinski on the C. D. W. Office of Art and Architecture – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Mysticism: Who’s Called to It? – Mary Kaufmann, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

Is the U. S. Selling Out the Middle East’s Christians? – Mark Movsesian, First Things/First Thoughts

The Heroes of Molokai – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

Intensive Summer School in Academic Drawing for Catholics – David Clayton, The Way of Beauty

Why Confess Sins to a Man? – Taylor Marshall PhD, Canterbury Tales

Redefining Marriage Will Sever the Roots of Children’s Family Trees – Bill Maguire, The CWR Blog

2 Houses of Horror : Missing the Signs & Missing Children – Elizabeth Yore

Political Philosophy: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica – William M. Briggs, Statistician to the Stars

50 Years Later: Vatican II’s Unfinished Business – Fr. Regis Scanlon OFM Cap, Crisis Magazine

More on Wedding Attendance. . . – Jim Blackburn, Catholic Answers

Homeschool Crazy Days, Keepin’ it Real – Jen Dunlap, Forever For Always No Matter What

The Devastating Effect of a Psychic Reading – Mystics of the Church

Does Christ “Look Down” Upon Us From Heaven? – Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Is Female Purity Bunk? – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad 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