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Painting of the Day: The Handmaid of the Lord by John Singer Sargent – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D., at Jasper via Magdalen College +1

Today’s Catholic Church is More Like a Rear Engine Beetle than a Rolls Royce – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at Southern Orders +1

No, We Do Not Need Better Systems – Gene Van Son at Catholic Stand

In a Nairobi Slum, Regina Makes a Home for Abandoned Children – Marie Mulli at Mercatornet

What to Say & How to Say It: Off the Shelf with Brandon Vogt – Pete Socks at Catholic Stand

How to Use Symbolic Number to Make Art & Architecture Appeal to Human Nature – David Clayton at New Liturgical Movement

Life Lessons from 3D Puzzles – Elizabeth Jean Seah at Ignitum Today

Covid-19 Killing Catholic Schools – Sarah D. Sparks at Education Week

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What’s Driving the Decline of Religion in America? Secular Education – Joseph Sunde at Powerblog via Acton Institute

Catholic Integralism; After Republican Virtue – James M. Patterson at Law & Liberty

Biblical Village Cursed by Jesus Flooded by Rising Sea of Galilee – Ed Whelan at Archaeology World

The German Synod Has At Least Three Antecedents, All Ended With Schism – Sandro Magister at Settimo Cielo via L'Espresso

The Unhappy Man – J. Budziszewski, Ph.D., at The Underground Thomist

Babies For Sale – Jennifer Lahl at First Things

The Pandemic is 'Officially' Over – Dale Price at Dyspeptic Mutterings

God Bless Our Cops – Michael Warren Davis at Crisis Magazine

How Catholic Social Teaching Rescued Me from an Academic Crisis – Lord Glasman 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