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Despite The Storm, The Future Of The Church Looks Bright – Scott Warden at Our Sunday Visitor +1

Dads, It’s Your Job To Raise Strong Catholic Men: A Priest’s Powerful Advice For Catholic Fathers – ChurchPOP +1

Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament Via Adorecast – Team Catholify

The Fires of Heaven, Hell, & Purgatory: Are They Exactly The Same? – Greg Chrysostom at Catholic Stand

The Only Two Moments That Matter – Joannie Watson at Integrated Catholic Life™

How Christ Relieves Our Sufferings – Fr. Romano Guardini at Catholic Exchange

Memento Mori: Prayers On The Last Things – Pete Socks at Catholic Stand

Cambridge Project to Digitize Medieval Manuscripts Held by Vatican & Universities – John Burger at Aleteia

Let St. Thérèse of Lisieux Guide You in Surrendering to God – Fr. Joel Guibert at Catholic Exchange

Christmas Around the Fire – Pete Socks at Catholic Stand

How To Pray “The Crown of Twelve Stars” Devotion – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

Magnificat Has The Sweetest New Advent Calendar For Your Kids – Jessica McAfee at epicPew

Why Christ Is Our King – Gayle Somers at Catholic Exchange

A Guide To Loving The Sacred Heart Of Jesus – Kathryn Jean Lopez at Aleteia

Five Practical Ways to Keep Christ in Advent – Debbi Gaudino at Seton Magazine

St. Thomas Aquinas’s Guide to Turning Away from False Goods & False Gods – Kevin Vost at Catholic Exchange

What Is A Spiritual Director & How Can They Help Me? – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity – Michael Liccione, Ph.D., at Intellectual Takeout

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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