Universae Ecclesiae Docs Released, Eucharist Foreshadowed in Old Testament, Fatima Secrets, + more!

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. . .Instruction on the Summorum Pontificum: Universæ Ecclesiæ. . .

. . .Universæ Ecclesiæ explanatory note. . .

Five Ways the Old Testament Foreshadowed the Eucharist - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

A Catholic’s Gratitude to Evangelicals - Colleen Reiss, First Things/On The Square

Kudos to the Bishops of England & Wales: Meatless Fridays Re-established - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

The Conversion of Bob Marley - Christopher Stefanick, Denver Catholic Register

Ten Reasons Why Pro-Lifers Will Eventually Win - Marcel LeJeune, Aggie Catholics

The Controversy Over the Third Secret: Objections & Responses - Father Andrew Apostoli C.F.R., Ignatius Insight

Catholic Sports Anchor Fired for Tweeting about Marriage?! - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

N.T. Wright & the Death of Osama Bin Laden - Francis J. Beckwith, The Catholic Thing

Thoughts About Oughts - Christopher O. Tollefsen, Public Discourse

Even Jesus Sometimes Said, “No.” - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

A Rebuttal to Phyllis Zagano‘s Argument for Women Deacons - Daniel G. Van Slyke, Crisis Magazine

England’s Nuncio Wants an English Church Less Bounded by the Spirit of the Age - William Oddie, Catholic Herald

Does the Federal Government Have a Role in Ending Abortion? - Lisa Graas

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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