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By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - Much of the confusion concerning the virtue of mercy lies in the fact that it is not an independent virtue such as courage, kindness, gratitude, or generosity.  Mercy does not stand alone.  It is a complementary virtue and its necessary partner is justice.  Mercy completes justice, as a tasty dessert completes a fine meal... It is easy to love mercy, more difficult to love justice.  But if mercy is to be received, it must first be deserved.  Only when justice is honored is mercy deserved.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - The Devil’s threefold temptation of Jesus is familiar. The Devil is a Red Supremacist. He wants Jesus to play the magician, just as the Devil manipulates God’s good creation. Turn those stones into bread, he demands of Jesus. The Devil hates nature, God’s handiwork... But the miracles of Jesus do not violate nature. His wonders heal, elevate and transform nature.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - There are many ways of being a pilgrim, only one of which is to go physically to some special – preferably tried and true and holy – destination. That’s my favorite way, since (at least in theory), it gets body, mind, and spirit all moving in the same direction.* In practice, of course, it’s more complicated than that because, in a fallen world, human life has become complicated.

By Raymond, Wolfe, LifeSiteNews - Fr. Gerald Murray denounced the Vatican’s crackdown on the Latin Mass as a “persecution” of traditional Catholics that “is damaging the Church” and threatening bishops’ rights under canon law... In another powerful interview on EWTN’s The World Over last night, the New York priest and canonist responded to Pope Francis’ latest restrictions on the Latin Mass, which limit the power of bishops to dispense from his 2021 apostolic letter Traditionis custodes.