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How Can I Forgive Someone When They Do Not Repent? – Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Six Principles of Discernment - Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Does Christ Mean that We Cannot Ever Judge Anyone? by Fr. Ryan Erlenbush of the New Theological Movement – Big Pulpit

Vatican Releases Guidelines on Promoting Vocations – Carol Glatz, Catholic Herald

How to be a Faithful Catholic and a Loyal Citizen - Eric Sammons, Our Sunday Visitor

The 1946 Referendum in Italy - The Mad Monarchist

Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City – Charles Cole

U.S. Congressman: Let’s Have Hearing on Christian Radicals – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report

Change and Same-Sex Attraction in Women - Dale O’Leary, Crisis Magazine

Makers of Cheerios Announces Support for Gay ‘Marriage’ - Thaddeus Baklinski, LifeSiteNews

Time for Gay Marriage Supporters to Revisit Their Assumptions - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Quæritur: “You are Absolved of your Sins” instead of “I Absolve You” - Fr. Z's Blog

Restoring Cathedral-icity to a Cathedral - Jay Boyd PhD, Philothea on Phire

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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