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St. Eugene’s Cathedral (Santa Rosa, CA) Retro-Fitting Sanctuary – William Riccio, New Liturgical Movement

Catholic As A Part Of Speech – Dan Byron, Catholic Stand

Brick by Brick in Marquette – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

The Clothes Have No Emperor: How I Evangelize Atheists – Kenneth Hensley, Catholic Answers

Controversy in Amoris Laetitia Arises from Lack of Confidence in Our Own Clergy – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D., Catholic Culture

Must Catholic Doctrine on Marriage Now Be Affirmed by Every Bishop and Bishops Conference? – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z's Blog

Poem: “It Takes Families To Raise A Village” – Guy McClung, Catholic Lane

Asceticism: The Alternative to “Hope and Change” – Timothy D. Lusch, Crisis Magazine

Snobbery, Sin, and Salvation: Brideshead Revisited – Harry Mount, Catholic Herald

Pope FrancisWants a Change of Attitude, Not of the Discipline on Communion – Ed Condon, Catholic Herald

At Least His Shadow – Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

Pope Francis: Amoris Laetitia Opens Up Many New Possibilities for Divorced and/or Remarried Catholics – The Catholic World Report

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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