Jeanie Hannaman

By Marge Fenelon, National Catholic Register - You may have more on your plate than you can manage, and so thinking about Lent ahead of time may be completely off your radar. Yet now is precisely the time to think about it so that you can take full advantage of those 40 precious days marked out by the Church for your benefit. Lent is a sacred time during which we are invited to reflect, re-evaluate and renew our faith and relationship with God. But all that takes time and effort that we might think we do not have.

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - I have been committing Paradise Lost to memory – in emulation of a farmer who lived one big field over from a professor of mine, the medievalist George Kane, when George was a boy in Saskatchewan.  Yes, I know what Milton thought of the Catholic Church.  But Paradise Lost is still the greatest single poem in English, and I find Milton quite shrewd in his psychological analysis of good and evil, and what moves a presumably intelligent being to do wrong.