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Practical Advice for a Deeper Faith this Lent - Deacon Mike Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life™

On Catholic Web Design - Marc Barnes, Patheos/Bad Catholic

Great Lent - Thomas Howard, Ignatius Insight

How to Make the Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary for Lent - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

The Second Biggest Gathering of Non-Practicing Catholics! - Fr. Joe, Southern Fried Catholicism

Most Popular Girl In School - Theresa Noble, Ignitum Today

Quæritur: Purifying Fingers After Handling the Eucharist. . . Not - Fr. Z’s Blog

Massacio: Holy Trinity - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

World Leaders Protect Marriage & Children from U.S. Homosexuals - Wendy Wright, Catholic Lane

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You Can Only Use NFP for Serious Reasons, What are These Reasons? - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

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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