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Calling After The First Date - Anthony Buono, 6 Stone Jars

Why Did Benedict Establish an Ordinariate for Former Anglicans - Tracy Rowland, Ordinariate Portal

The Installation of Archbishop George Stack, Seventh Archbishop of Cardiff - Dylan Parry, A Simple Sinner

The Princess Who Forswore Sleep in Order to Pray at Night: Saint Etheldreda - Catholic Herald

How the Holy See Conducts Diplomacy - John Thavis, Catholic News Service

How Can I Know the Will of God in My Life? -Father John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Saint Silverius, Pope and Martyr - Catholic Lane

Constructing the Rhetoric for the New Evangelization - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

The ‘Simple English Propers’, Sacred Music Revolution? - Denys Powlett-Jones, Catholic Phoenix

Two Babylons, An Alternate History - The Catholic Knight

Offense and Criticism in the Marriage Debates - R. J. Snell, Public Discourse

A Father to Everyone - DarwinCatholic

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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