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The Flowering of Traditional Church Architecture – Denis McNamara, Sacred Architecture

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When Priest Wanders from the Pulpit, He Often Strays From Faith – Relieved Debtor, Architecture + Morality

Healed by Sticks (Or Why I Love Going to Confession) – Ryan M., Ignitum Today

What is the Solution to our Stressful and Anxious Lives? – Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

New York Time Readers: Do Not Go Forth and Multiply – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Floor Tiles from Cleve Abbey in Somerset – David Clayton, New Liturgical Movement

Why Do Marriage Annulments Take So Long? – Cathy Caridi JCL, Canon Law Made Easy

Getting Benedict Wrong on Jesus’ Infancy – Mark Brumley, The CWR Blog

Holy Impatience – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap, First Things/On The Square

The Cardinal and the Love Letter – Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma

How Porn is Like Strangulation – Rob Hall, Road to Rome

Where is the Traveling Head of Saint Andrew? – Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tale

CDF Prefect: The Hermeneutic of Reform is Only Possible Interpretation – Fr. Z’s Blog

The Passion of Consumerism – Nelson, Ramblings of a Byzantine Catholic

I Hate You – Ric Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal

The Philokalia: St. Mark the Ascetic – Rob Hall, Road to Rome

Hitler’s Pope, Nazi Crimes and The New York Times – Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, These Stone Walls

Other than the Latin Mass, is there Anything more Beautiful than This? – Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Animals are Much Easier to Understand than Women – Fr. Levi, The Way Out There

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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