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Army Values – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

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Auto-Tuned Life – Mariella Hunt, Ignitum Today

Boston Boys Choir, St. Paul’s Cambridge - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café

Unlocking the Secrets to Places Catholics Call Home by Kat. P. Warner, ICL™ website - Big Pulpit

New Oratory-in-Formation coming for Brisbane, Australia – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

What Gosnell Did is Not Rare - Stacy Trasancos PhD

Church Before Sex - Wesley Hill, First Things/First Thoughts

Feminists Attack, The Meek Will Conquer - Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine

B. B. C. Ignorance on Tudor History – Webmaster Gareth, Catholic & Welsh

Did Religion Motivate the Boston Bombers? - Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Standing on my Head

Coming Soon: The KKKatholic Church - Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

Live Action’s Tactics are Still Wrong - Mark Shea, Catholic & Enjoying It!

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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