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Field Trips in a Large Family – Jen Dunlap, Forever For Always No Matter What

Controlling Women’s Desires in Kenya by Anne Morse of Catholic Lane - BigPulpit.com

New USCCB President Archbishop Kurtz & His Younger Brother with Down’s Syndrome - Madeleine Teahan, The Catholic Herald

Fr. Edward T. Oakes, S. J., R. I. P. – Christopher Blosser, The American Catholic

10 Ways to Grow in Holiness Today - Misty, Catholic Sistas

René de La Tour du Pin & the Renewal of the Social Order – Joseph F. X. Sladky, Crisis Magazine

Te Deum, Solemn Tone, 5th-Century Monastic Chant – Zephyrinus

The Immaculate Conception Extra - BigPulpit.com

Common Core Is Not Catholic Education – David G. Bonagura Jr., The Catholic Thing

Blech! *splik* Blech! Gak! – Fr. Z’s Blog

Refuting the Myth of the “Invisible Church” – David L. Gray, Catholic Lane

Anglicans No Longer Weird! - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

A Bruised, Dirty Church – Phil Kosloski, Catholic Exchange

“The Sound of Music”: Wholesome Entertainment Sells – Kathy Schiffer, Seasons of Grace

Euthanizing the Unhappy: The Urgent Need for Love - Jennifer Roback Morse, Mercatornet

Scaling the Faceless, Ominous Ramparts of Modernism – Enzo G. Selvaggi, Regina Magazine

Human Beings are Not the Problem, They are the Solution – Alberto González, Aleteia

The Poetic Spirituality of ‘Mumford & Sons’ - Aleteia

Liturgical Reform, a History to Rewrite – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Mandela’s Record on Pro-Life & Pro-Family Issues – John Smeaton, SPUC

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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