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Ambiguity and Eucharistic Instruction - Stanley D. Williams Ph.D, Catholic Lane

The Virtues of the City - Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Why Did the Law of Moses Exist? - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Does Religion Shrink Your Brain? - Denyse O’Leary, MercatorNet

Down Syndrome & the Purpose of Prenatal Testing - Matthew Hennessy, First Things/On the Square

Give Me that Old Time Religion to Reduce Crime - Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

The Virtue of Fairness - Dr. Donald DeMarco, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Co-Creational Curriculum - Dr. James Knotwell, The Distributist Review

Calling Things by Their Proper Names- Anthony S. Layne, The Impractical Catholic

Bart Ehrman and the Hyper-Rational Protestants - Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

RU 486 Abortion Drug Kills 14 Women, Injures 2,200 - Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com

Top Cisco Employee Fired for Defending Marriage, Family - Rebecca Millette, LifeSiteNews.com

Absence of Faith - Father Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

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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