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How The Black Plague Changed The Hail Mary Prayer, Ratzinger On Fasting From The Eucharist And More!

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Tito Edwards Blogs

How the Black Plague Changed the “Hail Mary” Prayer – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia +1

Joseph Ratzinger on Fasting from the Eucharist – The Catholic World Report +1

The Book of Eli & the Road to Redemption – Mark C. McCann at Catholic Stand

Dear Bishops: Take Advantage of a God-given Teaching Moment – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D., at New Liturgical Movement

Drawing Abortion Lines – Tom Collingwood at Catholic Stand

Ego Patricius: A Review Of “I Am Patrick” – Brad Miner at The Catholic Thing

Charity – Noel Ethan Tan at Ignitum Today

Liturgy: Work for the People or Work of the People? – Samuel Ng at Clarifying Catholicism

The Continuity of Time & the Event Horizon of Information – J. Bolton at Augustines Alley

Amid Virus’ Spread, A Church In Lockdown – Rocco Palmo at Whispers in the Loggia

Despicable: Attack On Spiritual Communion, Private Masses, Adoration, Processions. . . – Fr. Z's Blog

Joe Biden Betrays His Fellow Catholics – Paul Kengor at Crisis Magazine

A Peritus of Vatican II on the Church & Modernistic Art in the Liturgy – John Paul Sonnen at Liturgical Arts Journal

Can a Catholic Be a Democratic Socialist? – Trent Horn at Catholic Answers Magazine

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Tito Edwards

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal Catholic life, he reverted completely to his childhood faith that began on the eve of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He publishes Big Pulpit, Catholic Stand, Ignitum Today, and The American Catholic.

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

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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.

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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

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