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The Saintly Queen Who Changed History – Steve Weidenkopf at Catholic Answers Magazine +1

A New Line of Liturgical & Clerical Sweats – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at Southern Orders +1

How to Start to Pray – David Torkington at Catholic Stand

St. Katharine Drexel: A Saint for Racial Justice – Michael R. Heinlein at Simply Catholic

Rediscovering Downtime While Sheltering in Place – B.J. Gonzalvo, Ph.D., at Catholic Stand

Bishop Basil Meeking (1929-2020): Requiescat in Pace – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D., at New Liturgical Movement

The Holy Trinity & One God – Fr. Gerald Musa at Ignitum Today

The German Synod: Will England Follow The Germans Into Schism? –  Nicolas Bellord at The Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma

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Four Continental Variations on “Roman” Vestments – Shawn R. Tribe at Liturgical Arts Journal

How to Convince Someone to Donate – Brice Sokolowski at CatholicFundraiser.net

Dom Guéranger on the Neo-Gallican Prefaces – Notkerus Balbulus at Canticum Salomonis

Closet Spotlight: Slipping into Summer Shoes (Catholic Fashion Blog) – Meghan Ashley Styling

A Protestant Appreciation of Pope John Paul II – Bruce Riley Ashford at First Things

In Defense of Twenty-Dollar Words – Michael Yost at Crisis Magazine

Antifa Takes Over a Chunk of Seattle, Literally – Fr. Z’s Blog

Great Minds on Wokeness – Edward Feser, Ph.D.

Often It’s the Well-Educated Who are Most Susceptible to Conspiracy Theories – Francis Phillips 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