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The Best in Catholic Blogging

After Regensburg: Betraying Persecuted Christians in Muslim Lands - Douglas Murray, Catholic Herald

Music in the Liturgy - Marc Barnes, VirtuousPla.net

The Acts We Perform; The People We Become - Fr. Robert Barron, Integrated Catholic Life™

Skirmish in Scotland, But We Need a War (“Gay Marriage”) - Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

The Monster’s Story - David Mills, First Things/On the Square

“Bishop” Mascherino Not Recognized by the Vatican? - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

A Case for the Devil - Damian J. Ference, Dappled Things

Faith Transcends Desperation - The Australian

Power Cords and Apostolic Succession - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Handel, Judas Maccabeus and Mel Gibson - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Post-9/11 New York: A Secular City? - George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing

Benedict, Teilhard & the New Evangelization - Gianni Valente, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

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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