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Catholic Women Need Thick Skins Online - Caroline Farrow, Catholic Herald

Grace and Technology: The USCCB’s Uber-Tweeter - Kathy Schiffer, Seasons of Grace

Movies Sound Cooler In Latin - LarryD, Acts of the Apostasy

Saint Martin of Tours and the Search for Holiness - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Le Chiese delle Cittá: Santa Maria della Salute - Nathaniel Gotcher, VirtuousPla.net

Thinking Critically About Mary - Philip Primeau, Catholic Lane

Distributism’s Fixed, False Beliefs - John Couretas, Acton Institute/PowerBlog

Christians in the Middle East - Joseph Bottum, Hudson New York

Africa Reminds Us that We should Pray Facing the East, Ad Orientem - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

The Pornography Pandemic: Catholics Falling Down - Patrick A. Trueman, Knights of Columbus

In the Matter of Bishop Robert Finn - Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing

Bp. Finn Agreement Seems to Indicate Prosecution’s Weak Case - Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency

Fr. Zuhlsdorf Fisks the Kansas City Stat’s Article on Bp. Finn Deal - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

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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