April 14, 2022

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A special collection will be taken on Good Friday to support Christians in the Holy Land in Catholic churches throughout the world. In an interview with EWTN, Vatican Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said that the Good Friday Collection is a moment for all Catholics to be united in supporting the places where Jesus lived, died, and rose again. This year’s Good Friday collection will be taken in parishes worldwide on April 15. It is the main source of material support for Christian life in the region. U.S. Catholics can donate to the collection online, as well as at churches. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250982/how-the-good-friday-holy-land-collection-unites-catholics-with-the-places-of-christ-s-passion https://myfranciscan.org/donation-page-pontifical-good-friday-collection/ More than 70 bishops from around the world signed an open letter this week to Germany's bishops, warning that sweeping changes to Church teaching advocated by the ongoing process known as the “Synodal Path” may lead to schism, or a formal break from the Catholic Church. More signatories have added their names to the letter since its release Tuesday morning. The letter comes after the German Synodal Path assembly voted in favor of draft texts calling for same-sex blessings and changes to the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a part of a “re-evaluation of homosexuality” in February. More recently, in an interview published on March 31, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx asserted that the Catechism’s teaching here is “not set in stone” and “one is also allowed to doubt what it says.” https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250973/cordileone-on-signing-letter-to-german-bishops-christ-s-teaching-is-timeless Catholics around the world are being invited to congratulate Pope emeritus Benedict the sixteenth on his 95th birthday, whic