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Six Rules for Dealing with Non-Catholic Family & Friends – Steve Ray at Catholic Answers Magazine +1

A New Renaissance in Vestment Embroidery Has Commenced – Shawn R. Tribe at Liturgical Arts Journal +1

With God in Russia: Fr. Walter Ciszek – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at Catholic Stand

Understanding Atrocities Committed in the Name of Christ – Efran Menny at Medium|Catholic Age

Death From the Perspective of Faith– Antonio Galindo at Catholic Stand

The Protection Racket ‘Insuring’ the Church – Joseph Pearce at Crisis Magazine

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Word of the Day: Larva – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Jasper via Magdalen College

Finding Faith: The Oldest Image of Jesus Captured in Mosaic – Lucien de Guise at Aleteia

Harmful Emails Sent Using Catholic Domain Names – The Catholic Weekly

Another Vain Attempt to Impose Novus Ordo Lockstep Unity on Laity: Seattle Archdiocese – Fr. Z's Blog

Perpetually Drunk – Fr. John Hunwicke at Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Race Riots, Nietzsche, & “Django Unchained” – Fr. Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative. . .

Empty Churches & the Empty Tomb – Matthew Walther at The Week

Transgender Madness Continues – Matthew J. Franck, Ph.D., at Public Discourse

Priest Overwhelmed By Reaction To 4-Hour Street Rosary – Seamus McKinney at The Irish News

I’ll Never Take a Knee, But I Will Reach Out My Hand – John Zmirak, Ph.D., at The Stream

3 Proven Strategies to Teach Your Choir to Sing in Latin – Aurelio Porfiri at Altare Dei

New Study: People Are Immune To Covid-19 While Rioting & Looting (Warning: Satire) – Eye of the Tiber

Katie At The Bar – David Mills at Catholic Herald

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