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Chapel Renovation, Jesuit High School, Tampa, Florida – Matthew Alderman, New Liturgical Movement

Being Sisyphus – JoAnna Wahlund, Catholic Stand

Preparing for Lent: Nine Liturgical Gems from the Byzantine East – Saint Peter’s List

Imagine Hearing Music Like This Every Sunday – Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

The Wealth of Nations Depends on the Health of Families – Patrick Fagan, Public Discourse

Book Review: Theology of the Body for Every Body – Robert Waruszewski, Ignitum Today

The Rich, Not States, are Called to Help Others - Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

Trends in U. S. Society Are Only Going to Marginalize Orthodox Christians – R. R. Reno, First Things, First Thoughts

The Kennedys Versus the Church – George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing

Richard III Should Be Given a Catholic Funeral Mass - William Oddie, Catholic Herald

The Miraculous Healing Power of Indulgences – Jim Cole, Catholic Lane

Pressure from Islamic Radicals Driving Catholic Religious Out of Eastern Libya – Catholic Culture/Catholic World News

U. K.: Clergy, Legal Experts Doubt Church Protections in ‘Gay Marriage’ Law – Hilary White, LifeSiteNews

Usus Antiquior Magazine Articles Now Online – Augustinus, Rorate Cæli

The Heresy of Our Day, Bad can Do Good – Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

Life is Probably a Gift – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

The Dominican Nuns: First American Foundations – Br. John Maria Devaney OP, Dominicana

Catholic Answers is Blogging! – Devin Rose, St. Joseph’s Vanguard

LOL Saints Shuts Down – LOL Saints

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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