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How to Pray with your Spouse, JRR Tolkien on Conversion, Assent to Vatican II, and much more!

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Revealing overlooked Roman Missal Changes - Barry Hudock, OSV Newsweekly

How To Pray With Your Spouse: Four Simple Steps - Christopher J. Stravitsch, HLI America/Truth & Charity Forum

Simple English Propers, 2nd Sunday of Advent - Jeffrey A. Tucker, New Liturgical Movement

“Advent is a Time for being deeply Shaken. . . “ - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

J.R.R. Tolkien on Conversion - Fishing in the Tiber

Two Difficulties - G.K. Chesterton, The Distributist Review

How’s this for “Diversity” and “Inclusion”? - The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

The Assent Owed to Vatican II and SSPX Obtuseness - Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

Covering Contraception, Protecting Conscience - Sherif Girgis, First Things/On the Square

Beyond the Sound and Fury of the Culture Wars - Stratford Caldecott, Catholic Herald

Newt Hates Him Some Fertilized Eggs - Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Fr. Z about, and to, Mr. Gingrich. Implantation? Not Conception? - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

“A Man for All Seasons” & the Call to Fanaticism - Joseph Susanka, Patheos/Through a Lens Darkly

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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.

AC Wimmer/CNA World
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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