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The Commandment of Assisi: “Purify your own Faith” - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Violence Religious and Secular - Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

Anna’s Song - Amy Lemoine, Dappled Things

Agree to Disagree? - Amanda Castro, VirtuousPla.net

English Translation of Prof. Becchetti’s PCJP Remarks - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Muslims Complain Crucifix Violates their Human Rights at C.U.A. - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Down Syndrome, Abortion, and Forced Starvation - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Who was Rev. Louis Bouyer? - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

On Monks and Changing the Stamp of Nature - Anthony S. Layne, Outside the Asylum

Are Levites Needed to Validate Scripture? - Jimmy Akin

Bosnia, Cyprus & Kosovo: America & Islamism in the Balkans - Lee Jay Walker & Murad Makhmudov, Pakistan Christian Post

Great Catholic Blog Shuts Down - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

“World Contraception Day” Ignores New FDA Warnings About the Pill - Arland K. Nichols, HLI America

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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