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Fr. Aidan Nichols on the Anglican Ordinariate and the New Evangelization – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

The Glee Effect: How America Went Gay by John StonestreetBig Pulpit

Anglo-Catholics, Your Time is Up – Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph/Holy Smoke

Whatever Became of “Communio”? – The Motley Monk, The American Catholic

Keeping an Advent Attitude – Marge Fenelon, OSV Newsweekly

Cloistered Nuns Secure Worldwide Music Distribution – Royce Hood, Ignitum Today

When Culture Abandons Reason (and Faith) – Donald DeMarco PhD, Crisis Magazine

How Are Priests Selected to be Bishops? – Cathy Caridi JCL, Canon Law Made Easy

New Book: Christianity, Islam and Atheism: Struggle for Soul of the West – Carl E. Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Larry Norman Lead This Man to Catholicism – Dale Ahlquist, The Coming Home Network International

Open Season on Catholicism – Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Syncretism, is It a Sin? – Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Are Pro-Lifers Racist for Opposing Abortion? – Joe Heschmeyer, Shameless Popery

Catholyc Live Aid Concert Event Announced – The Larry D, Acts of the Apostasy

At the European Union, Faithful Christians Need Not Apply? – Austin Ruse, First Things/On the Square

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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