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Heroic Priesthood: Seminarians Talk About the Demands and Joy of the Priesthood via ChurchPOP - BigPulpit.com

Saint John Bosco: Conquering Souls for Christ – Sean Fitzpatrick, Catholic Exchange

Our Expectations and One Certainty – Lianna Mueller, Ignitum Today

Accusations Against Priests: The Need for More Justice and Psychological Science - Richard P. Fitzgibbons MD, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Abortion, Torture, and the Juice-Box Theologians by Austin Ruse of Crisis Magazine - BigPulpit.com

The Economics of Sex: The Advent of the Pill and the Decline of Marriage – ChurchPOP

The Rape Exception: Getting to the Roots of Abortion – Birgit Jones, Catholic Stand

La Civiltà Cattolica Isn’t Always Right and It’s a Jesuit Who Says So – Sandro Magister, Chiesa

A Look at the ‘Actual Mass’ of Vatican II: the 1965 Missal – Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington City

Pope Francis on Womanhood, Motherhood, and Breeding 'Like Rabbits' - Meghan Goodwin, Truth and Charity Forum

University of Saint Thomas (Minnesota): Stick It In Your Ear! – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Innocuous But Uninspired Music At Mass? – Jeff Ostrowski, Views from the Choir Loft

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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