How Can We Make the Best of this Season?
Laurence Freeman, OSB
February 26, 2020
How can we make the best of this season? Commit more generously and absolutely to twice-daily meditation.
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Lent with the Saints: Do You Want to Be a Saint?
Greg Friedman, OFM
February 26, 2020
Joel 2:12–18; Psalm 51:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 17; 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2; Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18
A Deep Wound
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
How could God take my precious son at age 43 and yet allow rotten people who have stopped believing in God to keep on living? My son was a great Catholic and spent eight years in Catholic schools.
Film Reviews with Sister Rose
Rose Pacatte, FSP
February 26, 2020
Bombshell
In August 2015, Fox newscaster Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) becomes ill as she prepares to moderate the Republican debate. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), who favors conspiracy theories, thinks she may have been poisoned. Kelly is criticized after asking then-candidate Donald J. Trump about his past sexist remarks and if a man of his temperament should be elected president. He begins to tweet insulting remarks about her—and others follow suit.
Editorial: Follow Your Conscience
Susan Hines-Brigger
February 26, 2020
Conscience: “. . . a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. In all he says and does, man is obliged to follow faithfully what he knows to be just and right.”
—Catechism of the Catholic Church
Praying My Way through Dementia
Gloria Hutchinson
February 26, 2020
As she faces daily torments of forgetfulness, hallucinations, and sleeplessness, this author finds strength and peace in prayer.
Quick Questions and Answers
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
Before my sister died of lung cancer, she quit going to church. I tried daily to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for her. Is it possible that she is in heaven?
Yes, that is entirely possible. Each of us needs to resist the temptation to shove God aside and pass divine judgment on someone whom we cannot know nearly as well as our Creator does.
Why Bother with Confession?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
When I became a Catholic at the age of 20, I loved the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Now, more than 40 years later, my behavior is morally acceptable, but I am tortured interiorly by inappropriate thoughts, lacking focus and concentration. While polite and kind outwardly, I get irked or offended by others’ behavior. I am impatient, judging inwardly in my mind.
Lent Is about Being Faithful
Laurence Freeman, OSB
February 25, 2020
A lot can happen in forty days and forty nights.
Jesus’ Forgotten Commandment: Forgive Yourself
Richard B. Patterson, PhD
February 25, 2020
The key to loving your neighbor is learning how to love yourself.
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