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Seven American Catholics You Don’t Know About But Should by John Paul Manfredi of Epic Pew - Big Pulpit

Christian Education: A Knowledge of the Ideal and the Art of the Possible – Mitchel Kalpakgian Ph.D., Truth and Charity Forum

How Does Pope Francis ‘Force’ Me to Have Children? – Jo Anna Wahlund, Catholic Stand

Help Me Understand Attacks of the Devil – Fr. John Bartunek L.C., Catholic Spiritual Direction

America After Francis: Eight Ways to Keep the Francis Effect Going – Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Ignitum Today

Cardinal Burke: Only Sound Catholic Education Can Transform Our Culture – Adam Cassandra, Catholic Education Daily

The Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary – Paul Senz, Catholic Stand

The Rationale for the Liturgical Provision of the Anglican Ordinariates – Archbishop Joseph Augustine di Noia, New Liturgical Movement

The Death Penalty and the Catholic Blogosphere – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic

Ross Douthat’s ‘Crisis of Conservative Catholicism’ – Peter Wolfgang, via Facebook

The Heterodox Catholics Are Losing Their Marbles – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog

Semenal Donation: A Seedy Enterprise – Christopher White, Catholic Lane

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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