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Did Mary Ask Pope Benedict to Step Down? by Taylor Marshall PhD - Big Pulpit

Barriers to Teaching Boys How to Become Men – Donald DeMarco PhD, Crisis Magazine

How Can I Forgive? – Daniel Burke, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

The Catholic Gentleman: Attire for Mass – Nicholas, Whiskey Catholic

POW Servant of God To Receive Medal of Honor – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

The Veil and I – Michelle Arnold, Catholic Answers

This Bad Catholic – J. Q. Tomanek, Ignitum Today

Review: St. Edmund Campion Missal and Hymnal for the Extraordinary Form Mass – Fr. Z's Blog

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Chesty Puller and the Catholic Chaplains – Donald R. McClarey JD, Catholic Stand

Organ Accompaniment for Campion Missal and Hymnal – Jeffrey Ostrowski, New Liturgical Movement

Is the Default Position Shifting to Subsidiarity? – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Lane

The Death and Resurrection of Confession – Fr. Gary Dickson, Catholic Collar And Tie

In Sickness and in More Sickness – Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos/God and the Machine

Carl Jung on the Provisional Life: Peter Pan Syndrome – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

To Defeat Caesar Requires the Armor of Christ – Regis Martin STD, Crisis Magazine

Blindness to God – Arland K. Nichols MDiv, Truth and Charity Forum

The Best Catechetical Conference You’ve Never Heard Of – Marc Cardaronella, Evangelizing Catechesis

Les Misérables and Liberation Theology – Todd M. Aglialoro, Catholic Answers

Mercy’s Power – Br. Tomás Martín Rosado OP, Dominicana

Statues, Icons and the Eastern Tradition – David Clayton MA, The Way of Beauty

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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