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Six Years Ago Today, Habemus Papam!
Six Years Ago Today, Habemus Papam! (photo: Deo Gratias!)

Purgatory Made Simple - Deacon Mike Bickerstaff, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Examining George Stack, the Next Archbishop of Cardiff - A Reluctant Sinner

Mediæval Authors can Offer a Model of How True Education Works: Virtue Seeking Truth Through Friendship - Matthew J. Milliner, MercatorNet

Help The Crescat Go to Rome! - The Crescat

Six Years Ago Today . . . - Robert Kumpel, The Last Papist Standing

At Home with the Pope: Inside Benedict’s Daily Life and Menu - Andrea Tornielli, La Stampa

When a Curse Becomes a Blessing, Only God Can Do That - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Archbishop Martin Says Irish-American Sentimentalism Is Incomprehensible: But It’s Dangerous Too - William Oddie, Catholic Herald

Abraham Lincoln and the Rabbi - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Educator Wants New National Organization for Catholic Schools - California Catholic Daily

Semana Santa en Sevilla - Father Christopher Smith, The Chant Café

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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