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Response to a Southern Baptist – Steve Ray at Defenders of the Catholic Faith +1

A Word in Defense of the Bishops – Gerard M. Nadal at Ignitum Today +1

Art for the Domestic Church from Daniel Mitsui – Shawn R. Tribe at Liturgical Arts Journal

Justification in Catholicism – Briana Huddleston at Catholic Stand

Patron Saint Against Plague & the Great Art He Inspired – R. Jared Staudt, Ph.D., at Building Catholic Culture

The Power of Prayer in Our Lives is Unsurpassed – Gregory Siqueiros at Catholic Stand

Lessons to be Learned from the Hidden Christians of Japan – Meg Hunt-Kilmer at Our Sunday Visitor

Is Covid-19 a Punishment from God? – Trent Horn at Catholic Answers Magazine

Cardinal Kung Pin-mei: Sainthood Blocked by Vatican to Appease Communist China – Massimo Introvigne at Bitter Winter

Update: Construction of a New Swiss Guard Helmet – Fr. Z’s Blog

God Preserve Us From godless Philanthropy – Joseph Pearce at The Catholic World Report

The Year There Was No Easter – Anonymous at Clarifying Catholicism

Her Most Chaste Spouse – Fr. Boniface Hicks, O.S.B., at Catholic Spiritual Direction

Oberammergau Passion Play to be Postponed for Two Years – John Burger at Aleteia

Lent 2020: Pandemic, Pride, & Piety – Brian Williams at Liturgy Guy

Mubarak’s Lasting Legacy on Egypt’s Coptic Christians – Ramazan Kilinç at The Conversation

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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