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How to Cultivate a Spirit of Evangelization - Eric Sammons, OSV Newsweekly

What Does It Mean to Be Baptized With the Holy Spirit? - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Why Does the Catholic Church Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research? - Rebecca Taylor, Catholic Lane

Messianic Prophecies: Isaiah 7: 11-16 & 9: 1-7 - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

The Liturgy Sings Itself - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

St. John the Baptist, Forerunner - Frank Sheed, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Adultery as Links in a Chain (St. Gregory of Nazianzus) - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Haunted by a Phantom Heresy - Matthew Cantirino, First Things/First Thoughts

What is Wrong with Capitalism? - Thomas Storck, Ethika Politika

Australia: Same-Sex “Marriage” is a Mortal Threat to Marriage - Michael Cook, MercatorNet

Homosexuality/Pedophilia Correlation? - Robert Struble Jr., Catholic Lane

Which More Damaging: Priest Sex Abuse or Pro-Abort Catholics? - Teresa Rice, Catholibertarian

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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