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Pope Francis and Islam – Father David Vincent Meconi SJ, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Pope Francis: Rejoice, Arise and Persevere – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Work To Sanctify Your Soul – Father Ed Broom OMV, Catholic Exchange

Hope in Front of Me – Autumn Jones, Catholic Stand

Grandparents In the Gaps – Russell Shaw, The Catholic World Report

Now, Make Your Act of Contrition – Amanda Sloan, Ignitum Today

How the Catholics Invented Whisky – Harry Stevens, Regina Magazine

Islam, Immigration and the Importance of Culture – William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine

(Bishop Fulton Sheen) Fail! – Super Martyrio, The Martyrdom Files

Polygamy, The Federal Government and the Gas Chambers – Father Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

There Is No Legitimate Right to Privacy in Making Personal Pornography – Quartermaster of the Barque

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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