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What Makes a Parish “Great”, Did Jesus Believe in Purgatory, and Many More Great Links!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

Tito Edwards Blogs

What Makes a Parish “Great”? – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Christmas According to Kids is Amazing! – Jessica McAfee, epicPew

The Transforming Power of Christmas – Mark C. McCann, Catholic Stand

The Catholic Gentleman’s Christmas Gift Guide 2016 Edition – Sam Guzman, The Catholic Gentleman

5 Catholic Books For You And Your Teen – Anabelle Hazard, Catholic Stand

Belgium Bishop Co-Authors Book in Support of Pre-Marital Sex, Same-Sex Relations – Eduardo Echeverria, The Catholic World Report

Beyond Me, My Selfie, and I: A Review of Teresa Tomeo’s Latest Book – Bethanie Ryan, Ignitum Today

Dutch Doctor Performs Euthanasia on Struggling Alcoholic – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

Book Notice: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Job – Peter A. Kwasniewski Ph.D., New Liturgical Movement

Lithuanian Archbishop says Citizens Anxious about Russian Military Threat – Catholic News Service via Catholic Herald

Did Jesus Believe in Purgatory? – Karlo Broussard, Catholic Answers

Spirit of Vatican II Catholics and Patheos Out to Destroy the Pro-Life Movement – Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine

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Tito Edwards

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal Catholic life, he reverted completely to his childhood faith that began on the eve of the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He publishes Big Pulpit, Catholic Stand, Ignitum Today, and The American Catholic.

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.

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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

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