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What Is Eternal Life?- Msgr. Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

Suffering to Sanctity - Anna Williams, Ignitum Today

Fr. Robert Barron Comments on The Devil – Brandon Vogt

Want Pope Benedict XVI to Celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form? by Richard Collins of the Linen on the Hedgerow blog – Big Pulpit

Waiting for My Beloved: A Catholic Teen’s Look at Courtship – Chloe M., Mountaintop

Nashville Indie Musician Comes Home to The Church – Russ Rentler MD, Crossing The Tiber

4 Musical Analogies in the Theology of the Church Fathers – C. L. Davis, St. Peter’s List

Bishop Blair about the LCWR – Fr. Z’s Blog

Chick-fil-A, Same-Sex Marriage, and Tolerance - Big Pulpit

Women’s Religious Orders – Paul Kokoski, Crisis Magazine

Fifty Shades of Grey Book Needs to be Seen as Pornography – Teresa Tomeo, OSV Newsweekly

Genesis, the Government Revised Version – Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

What is the Opposite of a Doctrinal Ideologue? (Answer: Tony Blair!) – Fr. Tim Finigan, The Hermeneutic of Continuity

All the Difference: The Former Pontifical University of Peru – Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/On the Culture

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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