Protestant Says 5 Things Lost Because Of The Reformation, Making Sense Of Post Vatican II, and More!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

Protestant Acknowledges “Five Things We Lost Because Of The Reformation” – One Of The Best I’ve Read On It - Defenders of the Catholic Faith +1

How Do We Make Sense Of The Aftermath Of Vatican II? This Book Is A Clear Guide ☩ Phillips at Catholic Herald +1

Managing Suffering In Your Life  Edward Monti at Catholic Stand

Empowering Women in Holiness: The 4 Female Doctors of the Church  ChurchPOP

Is There a Better Time to Pray the Family Rosary?  Mary Kay Clark, Ph.D. at Seton Magazine

Guéranger on the Neo-Gallican Reforms & the Sacred Arts   Notkerus Balbulus at Canticum Salomonis

Grace & Perseverance  Christian Daru at Catholic Stand

The Catholic Literary Revival: The Inklings Period, 1937-1973 (Tolkien & Lewis)  Joseph Pearce at Faith & Culture

The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs in the Roman Forum  Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement

Why Are Dust & Ashes Proud?  Richard Van Kirk at Catholic Stand

Forty Days of Lent & the Temptation of Christ  Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., at Integrated Catholic Life™

Bipolar Disorder & Promises to Theresa  Birgit Jones at Catholic Stand

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on Big Pulpit.

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