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Anglican priest-convert to Catholicism, attracted to consistent teaching and authority

It is the customary work of sacrificing, that of giving something up during the Lenten season, that strengthens and disciplines our will so that we are not slaves to pleasure, whether it be material or otherwise. Sacrifice and prayer are key to building good habits, better known as virtues.

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The 100th anniversary of the end of World War I has focused attention upon the courageous heroes of that tragic conflict. Among these we can count Father Willie Doyle, an Irish Jesuit and British army chaplain who was killed in Belgium during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917.

Dr. Schuchts, a marriage and family therapist, encourages us to turn our trials on their head by seeing them as something positive.

As the astute observer will rightly surmise, Bad Shepherds is a book about bad bishops, just not the ones you might read about in today’s headlines.

Always thought-provoking and often wry, the eminent Jesuit thinker tackles topics from abortion, multiculturalism, and the nature of music to death, funerals, and the afterlife — and all manners of subjects in between.

Our earthly life gives promise of what it does not accomplish. It promises immortality, yet it is mortal. It contains life in death and eternity in time, and it attracts by beginnings which faith alone brings to an end.

Many beliefs about Jesus’ physical suffering have become firmly transfixed in our minds because of the numerous crucifixes we have seen, homilies we have heard, articles we have read, and movies we have watched.

As the push to legalize assisted suicide— euphemistically termed “medical aid in dying”— continues across the United States, it is helpful to step back periodically and reassess where we are.

I would be the first to acknowledge the huge strides that have been made in terms of women’s emancipation.

Today, suffering in any form is disdained and seen as unnecessary and unsophisticated. Even in Church circles, there’s the greatest emphasis on mercy, yet scant notice of God’s justice.

Oscar Romero’s appointment in February 1977 as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador was seen as a victory for El Salvador’s right-wing military regime and the country’s ruling class.

Cameron is also president of Legatus’ San Juan Capistrano Chapter, which has developed a distinct missionary approach to seeking out and welcoming prospective members.

I share this because our sanctuary renovation has been a powerful visual for me of the “renovation” that God desires to do in us personally.

It struck me that in a sense Lent is the spiritual equivalent of the State of the Union address for each of us and the state of our soul.