Citing the “essential and central nature of the eucharistic sacrifice” in the life of the Catholic Church, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron Feb. 9 announced the general dispensation from Sunday Mass for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Detroit will expire March 13.
Two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen and the head of Catholics Relief Services asked the Biden administration Feb. 10 to grant Temporary Protected Status for 18 months to foreign nationals from Central America in the United States and to provide aid to their hurricane-ravaged countries.
Since childhood, the typical U.S. Catholic’s response to Lent is giving up, as in “What are you giving up for Lent?”
Sister Marnette Bamberger, O.P.; Sister Edyth Therese Fitzsimmons, C.S.J.; Sister Jean Albert Fry, O.P.; Sister Jane Ann Houlihan, S.C.; Sister Therese Monaghan, O.P.; Sister Marguerite Nenninger, O.P; Sister Jean Peter Olsen, O.P; Sister Mary Sheehan, I.H.M.; Sister Annette Marie Sledzaus, O.P..
The longtime H.S. basketball scout and devout Catholic died Feb. 8.
History cannot be changed by purifying the past of its impurities. Trying to do it is a violation of the historical truth, something like crying over spilled milk.
Until That Day When Abortion Is Unthinkable; The Loss of Elderly Patients in Nursing Homes;President Biden’s Agenda Is Frightening; The Secretary of Defense Our Country Needs; Which Direction Is the Church Going?; Talk of Helping The Marginalized Is Just Empty Rhetoric; Only With God’s Help Will Our Country Regain Unity.
As we come to Lent this year, we cannot help but remember how we began Lent last year at the start of the pandemic. The time of COVID-19 was coming upon us, and little did we understand how it happened, nor how long we would have to endure the pandemic. Lent 2021 is yet another Lent we will have to pass through in the time of coronavirus. Yet, this time gives us a real opportunity to prepare for Easter, the time when we renew our faith.
Teaching the philosophies of existentialism and personalism for many years, I think has deepened my understanding of freedom. Because freedom is one of the mysterious gifts that God has given to us, I don’t claim to understand the mystery of freedom completely. Still, I think reading and teaching some great philosophers has helped me go more deeply into the meaning of freedom and the central role it plays in the development of the human person.
We soon will enter the Season of Lent during an extraordinary time as we continue to face the pandemic which has caused so much suffering already. In some ways, it is itself a penance as is all suffering if we can unite it to the sufferings of Christ as we live in hope for the victory of the Resurrection.
