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Must-Have Literary Companions for 2013 – Katie P. Warner, Integrated Catholic Life™

Let’s Forget Niceness, Let’s Be Catholic! – Fr. Ray Blake

The Catholic Dissident's Latest Call for the Ordination of Women – Kenneth D. Whitehead, Crisis Magazine

Celibacy and Friendship ‘After 30’ – Wesley Hill, First Things/First Thoughts

Catholics and the Bourgeois Mind – Thomas Storck, The Distributist Review

Manners, The Lost Christian Legacy and a Sign of Virtue in a Man – Saint Etheldreda’s Place

How to Win the Argument Without Losing the Soul – Matt Fradd, Focus Blog

Blessed Antonio Primaldo, the Saint Who Stood to the End – Kathy Schiffer, Patheos/Seasons of Grace

Patience - Ryan Kraeger, Ignitum Today

First Vespers at San Pietro – Fr. Z’s Blog

Christmas Varia – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Assisted Suicide’s Dangerous Illusion of Control – Will Johnston, Life News

Bad Influences from Abroad – Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing

The Logic of Moral Relativism, Part One – Ben, Tow Catholic Men and a Blog

Why Are Catholics Still Whining About the H. H. S. Mandate? – Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Rediscovering Pope Paul VI – William Doino Jr., First Things/On The Square

The Curious Case Of Professor Richard Parncutt or Death to Deniers and the Pope! – William M. Briggs

Netanyahu Claims Israel’s Christian Population is Growing – Catholic Culture/Catholic World News

A Reader Asks: Why is This Blog Called ‘Canterbury Tales’? – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

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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