What If Pope Francis Surprises Us Once More? Are We Living in the End Times? and Much More!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

What if Pope Francis Surprises Us Once More? by Andrea Gagliarducci - BigPulpit.com

Beauty for Truth’s Sake, A Book Linking Liturgy and Education - David Clayton, The Way of Beauty

Are We Living in the End Times? – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

What Is Distributism? An Alternative to Socialism and Plutocracy – Joseph Pearce, Aleteia

Two Simple Tips to Stop Losing Battles Over Marriage – David L. Gray, Catholic Stand

Chapel Veils: A Re-Emerging Tradition – Veils by Lily

Street Preachers: Giving Christianity a Bad Name – Bernard Toutounji, Ignitum Today

Why Catholic Faith Shutting Down in Europe and America - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia

Pope Francis La Vanguardia Interview and Merchants of Death – Don. R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Dissident Priest Organization Criticizes Cardinal Müller – The Catholic Herald

Sainthood Only Way to End Row Between Jews, Catholics Over Pope Pius XII – Jon L. Allen Jr., The Boston Globe

The Ecumenical Laboratory of Ukraine - Brett R. McCaw, The Catholic World Report

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on BigPulpit.com.

Follow 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' via BigPulpit.com on facebook and twitter.

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