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?

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.

When it comes to moral and spiritual choices, there are no inconsequential decisions.

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.

If all the church’s worship should be thought of as a journey, Lent involves achieving platinum frequent flyer status.

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.