Five Things To Remember On March 31

1. Thousands of people across the United States will be welcomed into the Catholic Church at this year’s Easter vigil, April 4, including a retired Marine captain who appeared on the cover of National Geographic, a woman from The Gambia now living in the Pacific Northwest and a woman from Pittsburgh whose faith journey has drawn her own mother back to the Church.

2. Catholic News Service looks at the journey of some of the people joining the Catholic Church.

3. Pope Francis has named Father George D. Gallaro, 67, a priest of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton, Massachusetts, as bishop of the Byzantine Eparchy of Piano degli Albanesi in Palermo, Italy. Father Gallaro currently serves as professor of Canon Law at St. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Seminary in Pittsburgh and as judicial vicar of the Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.

4. Pope Francis has been tweeting throughout Holy Week, including today's entry:

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 31, 2015

5. God loves you.