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Don’t Give Away the Bride! by Michelle Arnold of the Catholic Answers website - BigPulpit.com

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Catholic Art – H. Reed Armstrong, Crisis Magazine

Pope Francis Knows the Difference Between Redemption and Salvation, Do You? - Leila Miller, Catholic Stand

Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” – Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, Views from the Choir Loft

Very Few Atheists in Fox Holes – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Catholic Blogger Invested into Pontifical Equestrian Order – Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

An Explanation of the Internal Divine Relations – Stacy Trasancos PhD

Anna Karenina on Contraception – Just Thomism

Photo: Scouts of St. George Logo Mock Up – Taylor Marshall PhD, Canterbury Tales

U. K.: M. P.s Ask House of Lords to Block Same-Sex ‘Marriage’; ‘Sham’ Vote – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

We Will Surrender Nothing; Pro-Marriage Revolution in France – Ludovine de la Rochère, First Things

Cardinal Dolan Forced to Provide Contraceptive Coverage, Sins Not – Kathy Schiffer, Seasons of Grace

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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