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Truth: Not What You Think – Kevin Aldrich, Catholic Stand

The Spirit and The Eucharist – The Wild Goose

Habits and Helplessness – Erin Cain, Ignitum Today

U.N. Report Reveals ‘Staggering Violence’ Committed by I.S.I.S. in Iraq – The Catholic Herald

What’s the (Catholic) Word on the Street? – Chloe Mooradian, Epic Pew

Ransoming for Christ: The Story of Two Daring Religious Orders – Stephen Beale, Catholic Exchange

How to Deal with Suffering, Suffering of Any Kind – Jeffrey A. Mirus Ph.D., Catholic Culture

U.S. Catholic Bishops Urge Parents to Fight School’s Transgender Policy – The Catholic Herald

Apostolic Succession Is Assurance of Truth – James L. Papandrea, Catholic Answers

The Sense of the Sacred – Mitchell Kalpakgian Ph.D., Truth and Charity Forum

Family Ties that Lift Us Up – Russell Brewer, Catholic Lane

The Lesson of the Anglican Crisis? That a Church Built Upon Man will Shift and Fall – Edward Condon, The Catholic Herald

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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