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Don’t You Wish Your Priest Would Give a Homily Like This? – Steve Ray at Defenders of the Catholic Faith +1

Darwinism’s Fatal Flaw – Maurice Williams at Catholic Stand +1

Catholics Gather Around St. Junípero Serra Sculpture to Save Statue from Mob – Mary Rose at California Catholic Daily

Gríma Wormtongue – Fanny Jean Jones at Ignitum Today

Be the Light in The Darkness – Kendra Von Esh at Catholic Stand

Half of San Francisco’s Parishes Defy City’s 12-Person Rule – Nicholas Wolfram Smith & Lorena Rojas Catholic San Francisco

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Sarah for Pope – Michael Warren Davis at Catholic Exchange

With This Nighttime Prayer, Forgive Those Who Have Hurt You – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

Canceling Fr. Moloney of the Archdiocese of Boston – David Deavel

On the Destruction of Statues of Jesus – Fr. Z’s Blog

Pagan Beauty, Biblical Brutality – J. Budziszewski, Ph.D., at The Underground Thomist

The Dwindling Number of Practicing Catholics – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at Southern Orders

“Catholic” Villanova University Ostracizes Catholic Theology Student For Being Catholic – Rod Dreher

Is the Media to Blame? – William Kilpatrick at Crisis Magazine

Can a Catholic be a Politician? – Grady Stuckman at Clarifying Catholicism

St. Michael, Defend Us Against . . . ! – One Mad Mom

Obituary: Don Shula, Legendary Coach Who Said a Daily Rosary – Matthew Walther at Catholic Herald

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