The truth about God’s mercy is this: It is a divine gift, not a human attainment.
Lent
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
What is an authentic sacrifice? A broken heart, says today’s Psalm
When I was growing up, the impending arrival of Lent brought on great anxiety over what to give up — soda? chocolate? or most drastically, all sweets?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Why this Lent is an opportunity to get our response to sex abuse right
A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Overwhelmed by decisions? Choose life with Christ.
When it comes to moral and spiritual choices, there are no inconsequential decisions.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The most dangerous Devil is the one you cannot see
If you picture a dark-winged figure tempting Jesus in the desert, you reduce the real power of evil. Why? Because you have removed the devil’s greatest advantage: the darkness of confusion.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Jesuit’s Lenten pilgrimage through the station churches of Rome
If all the church’s worship should be thought of as a journey, Lent involves achieving platinum frequent flyer status.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Catholic leaders should give up for Lent this year
With the beginning of Lent, we are all called to focus on one of the spiritual aspects of the sex abuse crisis that underpins all the others: namely, the tragic failure to see.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Ash Wednesday tells us it’s never too late to change your life
Life does not have to be this way. You don’t have to be this way. You can begin again. All that you require has been here all along. You need only return to the mystery of your own baptism.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Jesuit guide to Lent
Reflections on the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Repenting in the age of iPhones and instant gratification
Lent is the moment — or 40 days of moments — for us to turn away from our constant and public self-curating and turn towards God.