Archbishop Sheen on Vatican II, How the Sea Can Help You Pray, Fr. Araujo on Blogs, and much more!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

For Archishop Fulton Sheen’s Thoughts on Vatican II - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

How the Sea Can Help You Pray - Peter Kreeft

Feast of Corpus Christi - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Optimism in Egypt Over Building Churches - Catholic Lane

. . .CNA: Egypt could lift burdens on building new Churches. . .

Introducing the 2011 Novitiate Class of Dominicans! - Father Benedict Croell O.P., Ordo Fratrum Prædicatorum

On Blogs & the Meaning of Marriage - Father Robert John Araujo S.J., Mirror of Justice

Ten Events I Would Like to See in the Catholic Church - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Moral Sense and Unequal Exchange - DarwinCatholic

Generic Story About the Growing Convent - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

Catholic Modesty - Sister Lisa Marie Doty F.D.C.C., Nunspeak

Rebuilding the Russian Family - Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet
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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