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Religion & Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Talk? - Dennis Dillon at Catholic Stand

Confessors are Doctors of Souls – Maura Roan McKeegan at Catholic Exchange

The Protestant’s Problem with Polyamory – Douglas M. Beaumont at Catholic Answers Magazine

But What If You Pray & the Suffering Doesn’t End? – Tom Hoopes at Aleteia

A Catholic Style Guide – Justyna Braun, Ph.D., at Crisis Magazine

St. Cardinal Newman on Friendship for the Lonely - Thomas Dompkowski at Clarifying Catholicism

Historic Implications of Recent Supreme Court Case Stretch Back to “Roe v. Wade” – Russell Shaw at The Catholic World Report

Did You Know? Why Saint Arnold Is the Patron Saint of Brewers – Billy Ryan at uCatholic

Don’t Cancel Masses in Order to Avoid Crowds & the Spread of the Corona Virus, Add Masses! – Fr. Z's Blog

Adding Prayers to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass Against the Pandemic – Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement

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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