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Let’s Never Go Back to ‘Normal’ – Michel Therrien at Crisis Magazine +1

St. Joseph Combat Chaplet, Powerful Intercession – Fr. Richard Heilman at Roman Catholic Man +1

Music, God’s Consolation in Trying Times? – Robert Kurland, Ph.D., at Catholic Stand

Why We Exist: Hawking vs. Aquinas – Meg McDonough at Clarifying Catholicism

Quarantine – Kat Larson at Ignitum Today

Liturgical Perspectives in Time of Lockdown – Marco Begato at Altare Dei

Medical Care & the Free Market’s Limitations – Anthony S. Layne at Catholic Stand

Catholic Media Telling Story of the Church becomes More Difficult Amid Econ Woes – Brian Fraga at Our Sunday Visitor

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Arrested Catholic Lawyer Warns of Chinese Communist Repression in Hong Kong – Jonah McKeown at Catholic Herald

Some Catholic Churches Offer Public Mass Again. . . – John Burger at Aleteia

Papal Master of Ceremonies: Monsignor Enrico Dante – John Paul Sonnen at Liturgical Arts Journal

​Epidemic & the Liturgical Reform – Joseph Shaw, Ph.D., at Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Covid-19, Consumerism, & Acedia – Casey Chalk at The Catholic World Report

The Virus: Nature’s Revenge, or God’s Punishment for Hubris? – John Zmirak, Ph.D., at The Stream

Does the Catholic Church Have a Teaching on “Classical Education”? – Arthur Hippler, Ph.D.

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