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How Much of Mass Can I Miss? You Know and It Still Counts? by Dr. Ed Peters of In the Light of the Law - BigPulpit.com

Pope Francis: Communion Alone Is 'Not the Solution' for Divorced and Remarried - Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald

Christmas Tips From the Yeti – Ryan Mayer, Epic Pew

Time to Challenge No-Fault Divorce – Thomas F. Farr and Hilary Towers, First Things

Yes, Catholics Can Judge! – Jo Anna Wahlund, Catholic Stand

Northern Ireland: Catholic Church Cuts Ties Over Homosexual Adoption – Thomas D. Williams PhD

Martyrdom, John F. Kennedy, and Catholic Social Teaching – Jordan Haddad, Ignitum Today

Did the Church Change Its Doctrine on Usury? – Jay W. Richards, Crisis Magazine

Confession! What a Relief! – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

The Priest of the Gulag: Walter Ciszek, SJ – Kevin Schmiesing, The Standard Bearers

Should the Parish and Laity Cooperate with the Lay Movements Approved by the Church? – Father C. John McCloskey, Aleteia∝

Ireland’s Highest Cross Attacked in Anti-Catholic Protest – Greg Daly, Aleteia∝

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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