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Meet the Aztec Princess – Jacqueline St. Clare at Catholic Stand +1

Exorcist Diary: Demons are Blinded – Monsignor Stephen Rossetti +1

Ordinariate Bishop’s Selection Dovetails with USCCB’s Revival Goals – Peter Jesserer Smith at Anglicanorum Cœtibus Society Blog

Christianity in the Movies – Joe Tevington at Catholic Stand

Stories to Read Around the Fireplace This Christmas Season – Chloe Langr at Radiant Magazine

Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Byzantine Rite – Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement

Five Ways To Grow In Devotion To The Eucharist This Christmastide – Father George Elliott at CatholicLink

A Christmas Hymn – Richard Wilbur at The Catholic Thing

Motherhood Full of Grace – Cindy Bird at Ignitum Today

Wokeism: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Three Tips on How to Combat Its Errors – Chris Stefanick

I am Not an African American and I Hate Being Called That – David L. Gray

Exorcist Diary: Mentally Tormented by the Devil – Monsignor Stephen Rossetti

Liturgical Inventions, Part I – Father John Hunwicke at Mutual Enrichment

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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