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Procreation: Still the Primary End of Marriage – Deacon Jim Russell, Crisis Magazine

New Study: Birth Control Pills Reduce Women’s Well-Being - Catholic News Agency

How a Film About the Armenian Genocide Faced a Turkish Backlash – Jake Coyle, Catholic Herald

Make Church Music Great Again – Deacon Lawrence Klimecki, Beauty of Catholicism

Why Jesus’ Resurrection Is Not Borrowed from Pagan Myths – Karlo Broussard, Catholic Answers

Thrashing Against the Zombie Hordes: Christianity and the Culture War – Anthony S. Layne, Catholic Stand

Is Your Teen Watching ’13 Reasons Why’? Here’s Why You Should be Concerned – Paul Asay, Aleteia

Suffering–Our Great Gift from God* – Bob Kurland Ph.D., Reflections of a Catholic Scientist

What Is It about Mary? Part II: Family Life and the Church – Sarah Huntzinger, Catholic Stand

Why Catholics Kiss Images, Rosaries, and Sometimes Even the Floor – Elizabeth Scalia, Aleteia

Old Earth, Flood Geology, Local Flood, and Uniformitarianism – Dave Armstrong, Biblical Evidence for Catholicism

The Parable of the Talents – Elizabeth Jean Seah, Ignitum Today

So About “Couples for Whom NFP (Natural Family Planning) Doesn’t Work” . . . – Jane the Actuary

The U.S. State Department Refers to Christian Religious Liberty Activists as “Whack Jobs” – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

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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