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Ask Father: Can We Eat Halal Meat? – Fr. Z’s Blog +1

These 3 Women, All Former Atheists, Found Their Way Into The Catholic Church – Matthew Becklo at Aleteia  +1

Anarchists & Heroes at St. Patrick’s Cathedral – Daniel Demers at Catholic Stand

Ecological Sin: Whatzat? – Fr. Dwight Longenecker

The Right To Keep & Bear Children – Anthony S. Layne at Catholic Stand

Images Of Hell – Msgr. Charles Pope at Community in Mission

Be Brave – Kat Larson at Ignitum Today

Women Priests? – Fr. Bevil Bramwell, O.M.I., Ph.D., at The Catholic Thing

Chile, The Prelude Of Darkness – Carlos Caso-Rosendi

Libido Diminuendi & The City Of Man – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Crisis Magazine

Distributed Capitalism: A Catholic Economic Proposal – Shane Schaetzel at Complete Christianity

Idol Threats: When Evangelizing, True “Inculturation” Mostly 1-Way Street – Tod Aglialoro at Catholic Answers Magazine

Underground Bishop Guo Xijin Hounded By Communist Police To Submit To State Approved Church – Bernardo Cerverllera at Asia News

Why The Lives Of The Saints Make Excellent Comics – Francis Phillips at 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