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Building a Monastery With Medieval Tech - Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

The Mystery of Pope Gregory IV & the Square Halo - David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement

Cross-section of Crosses and their Significance - Matthew Bunson, OSV Newsweekly

On Television: Dominican Cloistered Nuns & The Shroud? - Lauren Green, Always Catholic

Nec Laudibus Nec Timore: Blessed Clemens von Galen - Anita Moore, V for Victory!

Good & Evil: Analysis - Colin Gormley, Ignitum Today

A Book Review of Faith at Work: Finding Purpose Beyond the Paycheck - Shane Kapler, Catholic Lane

The Welfare State, Saint Paul and Pope Leo XIII - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Donate Umbilical Cord Blood: The Gift of Life - Denise J. Hunnell MD, HLI America

Papal Profile: Pope Hadrian VI - The Mad Monarchist

The Tenth Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

The Holy Week Hit Pieces Begin - Patrick Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Catholic Interpretation of Scripture - John Bergsma, The Sacred Page

Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form - Carlos Urbina, Saint Peter's List

The Manner of Receiving Communion - Joseph Shaw, Rorate Cæli

Confusion on the Meaning of "Lay Apostolate" - Rich, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

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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