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Equality and Catholicism – James Kalb, Crisis Magazine

A Tale of 2 Mangers: Abandoned on Streets of Bethlehem & Adopted – Susan M. Tyrrell, LifeSiteNews

Pakistan: Freeing Rimsha – M. Pi., La Stampa/Vatican Insider

On the Demonic and Exorcism by Richard Collins of the Linen on the Hedgerow blog – Big ulpit

Mormons & Baptizing for the Dead: What is the Catholic Reply? – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Are Bikinis O.K.? – Carolyn Moynihan, Catholic Exchange

God’s Financial Plan for His Church – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

A Patron Saint of Down’s Syndrome – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald

What is Man? – Fr. Bevil Bramwell OMI, The Catholic Thing

Father John Ireland and the Fifth Minnesota - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

On Religious Freedom – J. D. Pierce, Traditium

On Enemies of the Church - J. C. Sanders, Ignitum Today

Genetic Engineering To Create New Super Moral Race – William M. Briggs

Should We Pray for Healing? - Cheryl Dickow, Catholic Lane

Junk Biology Promotes Uselessness of Men – Wesley J. Smith, First Things/Secondhand Smoke

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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