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Hollywood Should Continue to Blacklist Mel Gibson – Don. R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Lent: Victory Over the Demonic – Kathleen Beckman, Catholic Exchange

Is Bill Gates Insane? by Karl Keating of Catholic Answers - BigPulpit.com

Australian Bishops Would Welcome Return of Meatless Fridays – Matthew Biddle, The Catholic Herald

Finding Our Place: An Update – Elizabeth Teixeira, Ignitum Today

Pope Francis on Knowledge, Faith & Demons – Fr. James V. Schall SJ, The CWR Blog

One Year Anniversary of Pope Francis - BigPulpit.com

Cosmos & Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlanes’ Anti-Catholic Propaganda – Fr. Robert Barron, Strange Notions

You Are There – Bob Drury, Catholic Stand

Abandon Rules on Remarried & Church Discipline Collapses – Dr. Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

The Fragile Promise of the Pan-Orthodox Council – Byzantine Edition

2014 Marriage Synod: Lots of Smoke, but Hardly Any Mirrors – Dr. Jeff Mirus, On the Culture

The Rise of Secular Religion – God & Caesar

Marriage Is Work – Emma Smith, Catholic Exchange

Why Is It So Tempting to Compete With Fellow Women? – Meg Baatz, Aleteia

The Internet & Church Accountability – Patrick Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Top Priest Blogger: Bishops Shouldn’t Censor the Blogosphere – The Catholic Herald

Catholic Social Teaching, Work & a Jobless Recovery – Fr. George E. Schultze SJ, The Catholic World Report

Give me a Drink! The Third Sunday of Lent – John Bergsma, The Sacred Page

Apostle to the Germans: Boniface, the English Monk – Michael Durnan, Regina Magazine

How to Sell Death – John Burger, The Catholic World Report

Orthodoxy, State & Society – George Weigel, Aleteia

How Good is the Son of God Movie? – Monica Migliorino Miller, Crisis Magazine

Shanghai’s Bishop, Joseph Fan Zhongliang, SJ, Dies – Anthony E. Clark PhD, The CWR Blog

Let the Battle for Purity Begin: Love vs. Pornography – Paul S. Loverde, First Things

Can Good Catholics Criticize the Pope? – Joseph Shaw, The Chairman's Blog

Archbishop Gomez & His Liturgical Dancing Troupe – Fr. Z’s Blog

Guinness & Heineken are Now Political Statements – God & Caesar

Orthodoxy & the Traditional Mass, Part 1 – Joseph Shaw, The Chairman's Blog

Lectio Divina: Tools of the Workshop – Peter Kwasniewski PhD, New Liturgical Movement

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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