Jeanie Hannaman

By Aaron Kheriaty, MD, Catholic Exchange - In the first part of this series I introduced the brief prayer, doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering—a simple aspiration we can say many times a day. I also suggested that to help us go deeper into the meaning of this prayer, I would publish here during Holy Week a prayer for Consecration to the Most Holy Cross of Jesus, which can be made on Good Friday. Here I want to offer some suggestions on how we might use the remainder of Lent to prepare for this consecration. Indeed, the preparatory work for the consecration is as important as the consecration itself and will make it more fruitful.

By Joannie Watson, Integrated Catholic Life - Like the deadly sin of avarice, the danger in a narrow definition of gluttony is that we might write it off as a problem other people deal with, but not us. Narrowly speaking, gluttony is “taking unreasonable pleasure in food and drink.” Perhaps we think of Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or another extreme. That’s not me! I try to eat healthy! Moving on… But not so fast! We can be gluttonous is a lot of things other than food or drink. ...

By Josh Hammer, Patriot Post - At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts famously invoked America’s national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire.”... If only!