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Why Do Some Men “Discerning a Vocation” Still Date? – Katrina Fernandez, Patheos/The Crescat

Why is NFP Not Contraception? – Andrew Haines, Crisis Magazine

What Do Social Radicals Really Mean by Tolerance? by Msgr. Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington blog – Big Pulpit

Abortion is ‘Directly Linked to Porn’: Anti-Porn Crusader – Peter Baklinski, LifeSiteNews

Spiritual Combat: Walking the Line in a Material World - Vicki Burbach, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Today is Chick-fil-A Tolerance Day - Big Pulpit

The Loneliness of Singlehood – Julie Rodrigues, Ignitum Today

Red China: Lou Xiaoying Has Saved 30 Babies Abandoned at Trash Dumps – Mountaintop

Discerning Marriage as Natural Vocation – Fr. Bryce Sibley, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Has Modern Catechesis Disney’d the Bible? – Andrew Sciba, Truth & Charity

Religious Freedom and the Forces of Tolerance - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

Maslow’s Hierarchy Revisited: Parenthood’s On Top! – Kathy Schiffer, Catholic Lane

Why Every Scientist Needs a Classical Training – William M. Briggs

The Vatican Information Service Shuts Down – RomeReports.com

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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