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What It’s Like to Get a Master’s in Theology by Shaun McAfee of Epic Pew - Big Pulpit

Beauty Matters – Father Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man

The Trees of Life – Ray Sullivan, Catholic Stand

Why Do Christians Eat Bacon? A Look at Natural Law – Sam Entile, The Catholic Voyager

Living Life As It Is – Morgan McFarlin, Ignitum Today

Three Simple Paths to Interior Peace – Jeannie Ewing, Catholic Exchange

Ten Years a Catholic: A Conversion Story (of Rachel Lu) – Rachel Lu, Crisis Magazine

Eternity: A Special Woman’s Journey Home – Mike Eisenbath, Catholic Lane

Spirit of the Age Is Running Amok and Uncatechized Catholics - Skip O’Neal, he CWR Blog

Five Human Desires that Point to God – Steven Hemler, Strange Notions

Watching a Holocaust Happen: The Christian Genocide in the Middle East – John Zmirak

Catholicism, Capitalism & Caritas: The Continuing Legacy of Michael Novak – Nathaniel Peters

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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