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Five Tips That Will Change the Way You Think About Confession – Ryan Eggenberger, Ignitum Today

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Australian Jesuit Magazine: Family Has No Inherent Value by Kate Edwards of the Australia Incognito blog – Big ulpit

Evangelical Convert: Mindy Goorchenko – Why I’m Catholic

From an Ordinary to Extraordinary Altar at Mariawald Abbey (Germany) – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Silence and Inaudibility in the Extraordinary Form – Fœderatio Internationalis Una Voce

Is Islam Becoming The De Facto Religion of the United States? – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Reform of the Reform in England and Wales – Fr. Gary Dickson, Catholic Collar And Tie

New E. F. Mass Journal: Gregorius Magnus – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Old Roman Recreation of Salve Regina – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Why Be Catholic? Husband vs. GPS – Joyce, Onward and Upward

Greg and Jennifer Willits: The Normal Catholics Next Door – Peggy Bowes, Integrated Catholic Life™

Secular Reporting of Religious News Stories – Ed Peters JD JCD Ref Sig Ap, In the Light of the Law

The End of the Age of Distraction by the USCCB – R. Michael Dunnigan, Catholic World Report

The Situation in Catholic Britain – Hilary White, LifeSiteNews

“Non Quod Non Possis” – Thereserita, Celebrating the Year of Faith

Reflecting on Cardinal Heenan and Vatican II – Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

The Vatican and the Rule of Law – Fr. Robert John Araujo SJ, Mirror of Justice

Quæritur: How to Clean a Messy Thurible – Fr. Z’s Blog

Henry Gilbert’s Robin Hood – Giuseppe Butera, Crisis Magazine

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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