Guilt and Fear in Spiritual Growth, Additional Anglican Conversions, Yoga, and much more...

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The Abbot Who Believed that Guilt and Fear were Essential for Spiritual Growth - Spiritual Life, Catholic Herald

Visit the Prisoner - John Zmirak, InsideCatholic

Making History: 41 Year-Old Ukrainian Greek-Catholic (Major-Archbishop) Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk - Father Athanasius D. McVay Ph.D. H.E.D., Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae

Half of Anglican Congregation Follow ‘Amazed’ Vicar to Ordinariate - Paddy Cooper, South London Press

Yoga Stations of the Cross Tonight! - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Study:  Going To Church Makes You A Fatty - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

About the Footnotes in Most Bibles - Eric Sammons, The Divine Life

Canon Law Conference - Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice

‘The World Needs Peace’ - Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Premarital Sex Declines: That’s a Problem? - Joan Frawley Desmond, The Daily Register

Pope Benedict XVI: Don’t Evangelize Jews! Really? - Jimmy Akin, National Catholic Register

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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