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This is What Exorcisms are Really Like – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia

Is There a Probability for the Universe? The Anthropic Coincidences – B. Kurland Ph.D., Catholic Standgwood, Catholic Stand

The Traditional Latin Mass in Hieratic Liturgical English – Claudio Salvucci, Liturgical Arts Journal

What Progressive Liturgists Threw Away Was Wrong – Peter A. Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement

Are German Catholic Bishops Trying to Export Their Model for Failure? – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

The Spirit of Vatican II Effect: Popular Catholic Blogger Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy – Dave Griffey, Daffey Thoughts

Why is Christ the “Last Adam”? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Decimo Anno – Robert Royal Ph.D., The Catholic Thing

Giacomo Dalla Torre Elected Grand Master of the Order of Malta – Cindy Wooden, Catholic Herald

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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