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How to Enthrone the Sacred Heart in Your Home (and Heart) – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

When “Accompaniment” Never Names Sin – Deacon Jim Russell, Crisis Magazine

Catholic Podcasts You Should Be Listening To - Theresa Williams, epicPew

The Church has Succumbed to a Secularist Ideology Which is Destroying the West – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Bernie Sanders: Christophobe and (Indirectly) Islamophobe – Fr. Mark A. Philon, The Catholic Thing

Disaster in Germany Leads to Massive Parish Crisis Closures – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Fr. James Martin: Church Treats Gay People Like Lepers; As a Former Leper I Disagree – Joseph Sciambra, Joseph Sciambra's Blog

Praying for Immigrants – California Catholic Daily

Fortitude, Patience, and Meekness: 3 Virtues We Often Separate, but That Belong Together – Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

How to Raise 1 Billion Dollars for Catholic Charities - Brice Sokolowski, CatholicFundraiser.net

The Monk Who Chose to be a Slave to Evangelize His Masters – Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Aleteia

The Ministry in Matrimony and the Destruction of Divorce – Denise Renner, The Motherlands

Catholicism Spreads in Africa Challenges Rising Violence Levels – Rome Reports

Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose – George Weigel, The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report

A Real Approach to Counseling: Helping Teens Engage Fear – Mark C. McCann, Catholic Stand

7 QT: Seven Sizzling Books for Summer – Jean Heimann, Catholic Fire

A Monastery Cupboard More in a Monastery Cupboard – Fr. Hugh Somerville-Knapman O.S.B., Dominus mihi adjutor

Salus, Honor, Virtus Quoque Sit . . . – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment

Freedom Is Not Born from Evil – Ann Casey, Catholic Stand

Patron Saint of the Politically Incorrect – Brother Ambrose Arralde O.P., Dominicana

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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