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Cardinal DiNardo Chides Anti-Life Mandate, Exemption Too Narrow - Nancy Frazier O’Brien, Catholic News Service

Will China Buy Our Silence About Persecution of Catholics - Bishop Robert W. Finn, The Catholic Key Blog

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Confession Time - Mundabor’s Blog

I Swear by Apollo, the Healer - Michael Cook, MercatorNet

New York Times Hails Priestesses For 2nd Week In a Row; HuffPo Fumbles - Dave Pierre, TheMediaReport.com

New York Times and Catholics: Call to Journalistic Action - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

A ‘Conscience Clause’ is Not Enough - Phil Lawler, CatholicCulture.org/On the News

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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