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Unraveling The New York Time’s 'Unraveling the Church Ban on Gay Sex' by William M. Briggs of Statistician to the Stars - BigPulpit.com

Pope Francis’ Evolving Curial Reform – Andrea Gagliarducci, Monday Vatican

Quiz: Which Saint Said It? - Tatiana Federoff, Epic Pew

Why Are Seminaries Afraid of the Extraordinary Form? – Father Christopher Smith, One Peter 5

People of the Lie by Steve Roney of ‘Od’s Blog! - BigPulpit.com

No Excuses: Catholic Schools Must Evangelize – Glenn B. Siniscalchi, Crisis Magazine

Just the Moral Facts, Ma’am - Anthony S. Layne, Catholic Stand

A Tale of Two Suitors: Finding Mister Right – Emily Shaw, Restless Press

The 'Pernicious Habit of Charity' – Elaine Krewer, The American Catholic

Dressgate: Is Perception Reality? - Matthew Becklo, Strange Notions

Catholicism vs. The Cult of Choice - Megan Twomey, Ignitum Today

On the Peripheries – David Warren, The Catholic Thing

The Present Life Is a Journey to Eternity – Dan Burke, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Dissident Catholics Try to Explain Away a Key Appointment by Pope Francis – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Saint Therese Catholic Church in Chesapeake: The Parish Priest Denied Me Communion the Tongue at My Grandmother's Funeral – Katerina Fernandez, The Crescat

Verbum Catholic Software Offers $5 Million in Grants for Education Program – Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine

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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