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Is This Where Some Pope Francis Fans Exit the Bus? by Frank Weathers - BigPulpit.com

Women Deserve Better Choices - Brianna Heldt, Just Showing Up

This Is Fearlessness: Defending Church Teaching – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

10 Tips To Help You Stay a Sane & Effective Catholic - Nicole DeMille, Invisible Woman

Bishop Paprocki: Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Exorcism - David L. Gray, Catholic Stand

Reason Should be Open to God - Leonard Franchi, Mercatornet

On Teaching & Loving – Jason Theobald, Ignitum Today

Being, Miracles & God: Answering a Reasonable Atheist – Mark P. Shea, Strange Notions

Can You Imagine Hearing This in Church? - Jason Liske, Ascending Mount Carmel

Catholic Herald Publishes First Front-Page Report in Latin – Catholic Herald

U. S. Bishops “Stand United” in Fight Against ObamaCare – Brantly Millegan, Aleteia

A Meditation on Love & Lament for the Church - Msgr. Charles Pope

The Practical Problems of the Pastoral Approach – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia

Abp. Hart of Melbourne Fights for the Seal of Confession - Fr. Z’s Blog

Promoting Gender Confusion in the Young - Rachel Lu, Crisis Magazine

Tribalism, Scientism & Explosive Growth of Racism - Jason Jones & John Zmirak, Aleteia

Polling the Laity is Always a Bad Idea - Austin Ruse, The Catholic Thing

Must Read: On Becoming & Remaining an Orthodox Christian – Byz Pulpit

Chesterton Chats - Kevin O’Brien, Waiting for Godot to Leave

PopeWatch: Atheists Praying for Pope – Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Belgium Bishops Attack Proposed Euthanasia Law - Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald

Destruction of Ender’s Game – God & Caesar

Quæritur: Glass Chalice . . . Really? Still a Problem? - Fr. Z’s Blog

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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