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The Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, Anti-Catholicism in 1832 America from the Look in the Mirror blogBig Pulpit

First, Prepare for Advent – Aged Parent, The Eye-Witness

Poverty of Spirit – Mary C. Tillotson, Ignitum Today

Are Catholics Supposed to Abstain from Meat Every Friday? – Cathy Caridi JCL, Canon Law Made Easy

Two Kings, Two Kingdoms (John 18:28-40) - Fr. John Bartunek, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction

Pro-life is a ‘Social Justice’ Issue, Says New San Francisco Archbishop – Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews

The Gorgeous Music of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Requiem for an Ambrosian – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Christopher Kaczor on Myths about the Church, Galileo, More by Carl E. Olson of the Ignatius Insight Scoop blogBig Pulpit

Religious Institutions, Civil Society, and Secularism’s Disguised Burden – Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

Lincoln, a Movie Review – Donald McClarey, The American Catholic

Bourgeois Mentality – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Keeping the Youth, From a Youth’s Perspective – The Byzantine Bandit, Wake Up and Smell the Incense

Fr. Peter Galadza: Optional Celibacy in Eastern Catholic Church – 'St. Elias. . . Today'

Eugenics, Voluntary and Otherwise – Anna Williams, First Things/First Thoughts

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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