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Can You Name These Basilicas? – Shaun McAfee, epicPew

Are We, As Church, A Receptive Bride? – Lilla Marie Lottinger, Catholic Stand

Special Report: Catholic Commencement Scandals Dishonor Class of 2016 – Catholic Education Daily

Amoris Laetitia: The Key to the Francis Pontificate – Monica Migliorino Miller, Crisis Magazine

Book Review: Manual for Eucharistic Adoration (Tan Books) – Stuart Dunn, Stuart’s Study

Peaceful But Not Passive: Romero and ‘Just War’ – Carlos X, Super Martyrio

Are the Little Sisters the Conscience of America? – John Clark, Seton Magazine

Amoris Laetitia Is First and Foremost a Document Written for the New Evangelization – Editorial Board, OSV Newsweekly

Pope Francis: “Read Presentation of Document by Cardinal Schonborn” Okay Your Holiness, We’ll Do That – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z's Blog

C.S. Lewis and Bart Ehrman: Liar, Lord, Lunatic, or Legend? – Brant Pitre Ph.D., The Sacred Page

Quæritur: If Orthodox Schismatics Can Receive Communion, Why Not Divorced and/or Remarried? – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z's Blog

Liberalism and the Rise of Suicide Rates in America – Dave Griffey, Daffey Thoughts

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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