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Archaeologists Discover Ring of Pontius Pilate Near Bethlehem - Billy Ryan, uCatholic+1

Bringing Liturgical Practices Home, Off the Shelf 101 with Kendra Tierney – Pete Socks, Catholic Stand+3

Do You Really Know What The “Serenity Prayer” Means? – Becky Roach, Catholic Link

Must We Have an Economy That Forces Both Parents Into Paid Work? – Oren Cass, Mercatornet

St. Thomas Aquinas on Mohammad & Islam – Steve Ray, Defenders of the Catholic Faith

God, Why? Why Wasn’t I Immaculately Conceived? – Guy McClung Ph.D. J.D., The American Catholic

First Anglican Use Pew Missal for the Laity Published – Christopher Mahon, The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society

St. Francis de Sales Doesn’t Dance – Rick Yoder, The Amish Catholic

Introducing the Hubble–Lemaître Law – Michael Baruzzini, The Catholic Thing

New Reports on the Sex Abuse Scandals & Cover-ups - Big Pulpit

Matthew P. Hazell Books Again! – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

New Regular Traditional Latin Masses in Rome – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

This New Age of Martyrs – Francis J. Pierson, Crisis Magazine

This Is Me – Nicholas Lye, Ignitum Today

Quæritur: Can We Cook with or Drink Holy Water? – Fr. Z’s Blog

Islamic Call to Prayer Replacing Advent in Linz, Bishop of Linz Silent – The Eponymous Flower

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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