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Poll: Americans Oppose Requiring Contraception Coverage 46%-39% - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Dr. Thomas Pink Weighs in on the Tradtitionalist Debate - David Werling, Ars Orandi

Is Catholicism in the America Healthy or in Decline? - John Norton, Our Sunday Visitor

If The Protestant Canon Were True - Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

Making an Idol Out of the Tenth Amendment - Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

The Jesus Seminar and The Jesus People - Brent Stubbs, Almost Not Catholic

Polygamists Exploit Same-Sex Precedents - Joseph Backholm, Catholic Lane

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CDC: Large Increase in Syphilis Cases among Homosexual & Bisexual Men - J. Kryn, LifeSiteNews.com

Today, Parody.  Tomorrow, Protected Identity - Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

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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