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Inside Leonardo da Vinci’s Mind - Nora Hamerman, OSV Newsweekly

A Church Built Out of Ice - Sydney Morning Herald

Breaking Bad Liturgical Habits II - George Weigel, First Things/On the Square

What Did Christ Look Like? - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

New Translation: 12 Liturgical Terms You Should Know - Saint Peter’s List

The Natural Law & Ritual Laws - Alice von Hildebrand, New Oxford Review

May Catholics Work on Sunday? (Thomas Aquinas) - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money - John Médaille, The Distributist Review

The King is Coming (Matthew 2:1-6) - Fr. John Bartunek, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Desiderata for 2012 - Fr. C. John McCloskey III, The Catholic Thing

Hell in Six Acts - Jeff Harris, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

2012 For Us! How About for Others? - Jared Dale Combista, Ignitum Today

World Lost 2 Brilliant & Eminent Catholic Philosophers - Robert George, Mirror of Justice

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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