SCOTUS: Anti-Catholicism OK, Third Secret of Fatima, Waterboarding Debate, Black Elk, and much more!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

How the Sea Can Help You Pray - Doctor Peter Kreeft, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Black Elk: Lakota Holy Man, Catholic Catechist - Pat McNamara, Patheos/In Ages Past

Cardinal Bertone Offers Up More About the Third Secret of Fatima - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

U.S. Supreme Court Says Anti-Catholicism Is Okay - The Catholic Knight

Catholic Social Thought and the 2012 Election - George Weigel, First Things/On The Square

Gender-Confused Kids Need Parents Who Think Straight - Mary Rice Hasson, MercatorNet

Jesus’ “Brothers” - Howard Kainz, The Catholic Thing

The Latin Mass is Banned and Altars are Ripped Out. . . - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Round-Up: The Catholic Blogosphere Speaks Out on Waterboarding - Lisa Graas

More Bin Laden Aftershocks - Mark P. Shea, Catholic and Enjoying It!

Osama bin Laden and 1848 A.D. - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

I do Not Normally Take Delight in the Death of a Fellow Human Being - Jeff Miller, The Curt Jester

This will be a continuing series from Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register.  This will be very similar to what you see on 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