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Teenage Dating for Girls by Theresa Thomas of the Everyday Catholic blog – BigPulpit.com

7 Secrets of Confession – Catholic Lane

PopeWatch: Fr. Lombardi Explains It All – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

The Early Church: Bishops & Succession – Matthew Heinrich, In and Out of the Ditch

Like a Rock: Pope Francis Takes the ‘Kepha’ Approach - Deacon Jim Russell, Catholic Stand

Just Because This Is Amazing: Agnus Dei – Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

President Vladimir Putin of Russia: Defending National Identity, Based on Russian Orthodox Religion – Byz Pulpit

2 Kinds of Happiness: New Study Confirms Old Truths – Sr. Mirkes PhD, Truth and Charity Forum

Series on the Sacraments Part 4: Penance - Alexandra Reis, Ignitum Today

Pope Francis to Young People: Avoid Drug & Alcohol Culture – Carol Glatz, Catholic Herald

Did the Divine Law Exist Before Moses? – Taylor Marshall PhD

Review: Ad Completorium; Compiled by Steven van Roode – Ben Yanke, New Liturgical Movement

Breathing Catholic in the Shenandoah Valley - Regina Magazine

Slovakia Stuns Europe With Colossal March For Life - Carly Andrews, Aleteia

G. K. Chesterton & J. R. R. Tolkien on Sanity & Reality – Philip Kosloski, In the West

Who You are Called to Be – Rachana Chhin, Ignitum Today

Archbishop John J. Myers Blasts False Reporting on Abuse Case – David F. Pierre Jr., TheMediaReport.com

When Your Parents Don’t Support Your Vocation – Fr. Benedict Croell OP, Order of Preachers

The Folly of De-Baptism – Fr. Robert Barron, Strange Notions

The College of the Holy Cross, Catholic No More – Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine

Contraceptive Eating – Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Combating the Contraceptive Understanding of Celibacy – Eric M. Johnston PhD, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Why did God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart? – Trent Horn, Catholic Answers

Teeter-Totter Anglicanism – Fr. O, An Irish Ordinariate

Quæritur: Priest Gives Host to Woman Holding a Napkin - Fr. Z’s Blog

The Walking Dead and John Ford – God & Caesar

Being the Prodigal’s Older Brother - Allison H, Catholic Sistas

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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