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Justice Scalia Wears Martyr’s Cap to Inauguration by Matthew Schmitz of First ThingsBig Pulpit

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A Vatican Spokesman’s Misguided Statement on Gun Control – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Welsh Starlight – Meredith Wise, Dappled Things

Some Bishops Want Your Guns – Nicholas G. Hahn III, Crisis Magazine

Ordo Militia Templi – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

The Life of St. Barbara Hits the Big Screen – Jean M. Heimann, Catholic Fire

Fr. Schall at Eighty-Five – The Catholic Thing

Encounter with Bhatti – David Mills, First Things/First Thoughts

Msgr. Eamon Martin to Occupy St. Patrick’s Chair – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia

40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade – Ryan Anderson, Public Discourse

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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