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The Blessed Virgin Mary with a Club - Fr. Z's Blog

A Victim Becomes a Survivor and Healer - Tony Rossi, Patheos/Christopher Closeup

Docility Is Not Wimpiness - Super Trad Mum, Etheldreda's Place

The Idea of Confession Was Repellent to me as a Protestant, but Now. . . - Brianna Heldt, just showing up

Dei & Knight: Traumatized Soldier-Saint Who Found Healing - Dawn Eden, The Dawn Patrol

New Evangelization Chief: Renewing Catholic Identity - Adam Wilson, The Cardinal Newman Society Blog/Campus Notes

Ballet Diaries - Fabiola Garza, Ignitum Today

Why Opposing the Gay Lobby is Not Anti-gay - Jennifer Roback Morse, LifeSiteNews

Learning Wisdom from the Patron Saint of the Internet - Brandon Vogt, The Thin Veil

Should a Parent Turn In a Criminal Child; Questions on Virtue and Law - H. H. Ambrose, Saint Peter's List

Religious Freedom: It’s Not Just Pakistan and China - George Weigel, Archdiocese of Denver/The Catholic Difference

The Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem - Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Professionally Run Diocesan Podcasts - Jeffrey Miller, The Curt Jester

Real Madrid, The Most Prestigious and Winningest Major Professional Soccer Club in Spain, Erases Cross on Uniform to Avoid Offending Muslims - Marco Tosatti, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

To Demonize or Not to Demonize? - David R. Carlin, New Oxford Review

Anti-Catholicism and the White House - Kathryn Lopez, Catholic Vote

The Sovereignty Myth: On the Limits of Political Authority - Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture

The Church’s Mission: Apostolic or Political? - Louie Verrecchio, Catholic Lane

Bishop Olmsted Teaches on the Propers of the Mass - Adam Bartlett, The Chant Café

Secular Inhumanity One: The State Against The Family - Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine

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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