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The World Ends With You - Jared Dale Combista, Ignitum Today

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How To Love Your Neighbor - Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

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The Cult of Experience: The Charismatic Appetite - Heather M. Erb, New Oxford Review

Unstable Behaviour - Peter Saunders, MercatorNet

Canon Law and Justice - Fr. Simon Henry, Offerimus Tibi Domine

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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