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Former Imam Faces Persecution for Converting to Catholicism.  Click on the link by Maria Gomes to read more.
Former Imam Faces Persecution for Converting to Catholicism. Click on the link by Maria Gomes to read more. (photo: This is not the actual Imam, just a representation of an Imam.)

Former Imam Faces Persecution for Converting to Catholicism - Maria Gomes, AsiaNews.it

Analyzing the Reason Rally - Ben, Two Catholic Men and a Blog

IVF’s Barren Wasteland - Judie Brown, Catholic Lane

New Graphic Novel Features Adoration and Catholic Devotions - Ed West, Catholic Herald

How Old Roman Calendar System Worked and It's Relation to the Liturgy - Fr. Z's Blog

Nature of the Church and Importance of Lay Action - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap, Catholic Philly

Development of the (Canon) Law? - Father Stuart MacDonald JCL, Musings of a Canonist

October Baby Actress Finds Healing on Set at Pro-Life Movie - Jael Zeballos, LifeNews

Seven Facts: Holy Week & the Early Church - Saint Peter's List

Subsidiarity & Libertarian “Small Government” - James Baresel, The Distributist Review

My Journey From Catholicism to Eastern Orthodoxy and Back - Frank Kimball, New Oxford Review

Humility and Suffering - Charlie Douglas, Integrated Catholic Life™

 

<div id="Blog_Edwards" style="padding-right:10px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; float:left;" '=""> Great Pic of Seminarians Praying in Front of an Abortuary - Father Philip G. Johnson, in caritate non ficta

 

Kindness Can Kill if Love is Unwilling to Wound - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Secular Inhumanity: Hatred of the Past - Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

Labor Lessons - Leah Jacobson, Ignitum Today

The Measure of the World - Blessed John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing

Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible - Jennifer Roback Morse, Public Discourse

Augustine: Reason and Faith, Philosophy & God - Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

The Louvre: Leonardo’s Final Masterpiece, St. Anne, Big Hit - Kat. Schiffer, Patheos/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