Jeanie Hannaman

By Patti Armstrong, EWTN News - The season of spiritual growth draws near. Lent is a focused time to bring us to a new life in Christ. The Church encourages us to partake in a transformation through the three pillars of Lent — prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Those pillars come straight out of the Bible, in verses such as: “Give alms. ... Pray to your Father. ... Fast without a gloomy face ...”… “The key to fruitful observance of these practices is to recognize their link to baptismal renewal,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops states on its website. “We are called not just to abstain from sin during Lent, but to true conversion of our hearts and minds as followers of Christ. We recall those waters in which we were baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.”

By Matt Walsh, Church Militant - A 2009 survey found that a majority of Christians believe — "strongly" or at least "somewhat" — that Satan is "not a living being but a symbol of evil."… it is important to acknowledge the reality of the Devil. It is not that Lucifer deserves any sort of respect or recognition. It is rather that he cannot be resisted unless he has been recognized. William Lane Craig says that the primary work of demons, their main activity from now until the end-times, is to "destroy the servants of God." Their second goal, according to Craig, is to blind unbelievers to the truth of the gospel. But it is apparent that Satan likes to combine these tactics. …