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One Way To Honor God: Stop Gossiping – Anne DeSantis, Catholic Stand

Why Catholics Thrive in the CIA – Robert Wargas, Crisis Magazine

Venezuela Is Wrecked, Pope Must Be Blunt In His Message to Its President – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald

Drop in Vocations to the Priesthood: Those Numbers Didn’t Just Happen by Themselves – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z's Blog

Bishop on Zika Virus: Follow the Message of Prevention, Not Abortion – Shaun McAfee O.P., epicPew

Gestures at Mass, Why Do We Do What We Do? – Dennis Emmons, OSV Newsweekly

Tradition: Its Necessity and Its Discontents – James Kalb J.D., The Catholic World Report

Your Vocation Is To Love – Amy Atkinson, Ignitum Today

The Suffering and Faith of Saint Damien of Molokai – Jim Graves, The Catholic World Report

The Pieta: A Lesson About Unexpected Grace – Debi Vinnedge, Catholic Stand

Growing ‘o’rthodox Churches and Spirit of Vatican II Laments from Germany – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

The Left Has It Wrong When It Comes to Sex Education – Jonathan Abbamonte, Crisis Magazine

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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