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How to Survive the Present Crisis in the Catholic Church  Shane Schaetzel of Complete Christianity +1

Continued Suppression of Underground Catholic Church  Gu Qi of Bitter Winter

A Tour of the London Oratory: The High Altar & Sanctuary  Shawn R. Tribe of Liturgical Arts Journal

Learning the Bosco Method  Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Quæritur: Butter in Coffee on Ash Wednesday  Fr. Z's Blog

The Process of Salvation: Past, Present, & Future  Dan Byron, Catholic Stand

Pope Pius X Explains How to Fundraise  Brice Sokolowksi of CatholicFundraiser.net

A Time to Cast Away  Janet Meyer, Catholic Stand

Are Bad Catholics Still Catholics?  Jimmy Akin of Catholic Answers Magazine

Such Faith  Noel Ethan Tan, Ignitum Today

Why The U.S. Founders Rooted The Legislative Branch In Natural Law  Madeline Osburn of The Federalist

Political Illiteracy: Jim Wallis & “God’s Politics”  Benjamin Locker, Ph.D.

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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