Purity of Charity, Silent Love, Loves Sees with New Eyes, The First Concelebrated Mass, and more!

The Best in Catholic Blogging

The Purity of Charity: The Way of Silent Love - Jeffrey Steel, De Cura Animarum

Love Sees with New Eyes - Doctor Peter Kreeft, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Sexual Revolution: Defend It, If You Can - Anthony Esolen, Public Discourse

Holy Thursday: The First Concelebrated Mass - Reginaldus, The New Theological Movement

Confessions During the Triduum - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Because Christ Didn’t Say “Take Up Your Palms And Follow Me” - Frank Weathers, Why I Am Catholic

British Catholic Bloggers, I Salute You! - Ches, The Sensible Bond

U.S. Castigates Holy See over Family Planning - Lauren Funk, C-FAM

Why It’s OK for the U.S. Govt. to Burn Bibles But Not Korans - Roger Kimball, Pajamas Media

Palm Sunday A.D. 1865 - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

A Lost Battle, Moral High Ground Belongs to the Vaughan Parents - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

See What the End Shall Be - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

This will be a continuing series, Monday through Saturday twice a day, that I will be contributing for the National Catholic Register by www.ThePulp.it.

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