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By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Gospel today says that Jesus was tempted by the devil in the desert. Hebrews 4:15 also affirms, For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin... How exactly a divine person, with a sinless human nature, experiences temptation is somewhat mysterious, and yet the text affirms that He does. A Lenten antiphon from the Breviary teaches that He did this, or allowed this, for our sake: Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering ...

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - In his account of our Lord’s temptations, Saint Matthew uses three different words for the Evil One. (Mt 4:1-11) In addition to the devil he also uses the tempter and Satan. Each title or name reveals something different about how the Evil One assaults us and – more importantly – how we allow ourselves to be led into sin... The Greek word diabolos (devil) means a false accuser or slanderer. It comes from dia-ballein, which means to throw apart. ...

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - “I find the people there are very docile to the teachings of the Church, very eager to follow the teachings of the Church,” Paprocki said. “They’re very faithful Catholics.”... A rescript, which is what the clarification was, is a response to a request initiated by someone else — in this case, Cardinal Roche... “It wasn’t the Holy Father taking the initiative,” Bishop Paprocki said, but rather an “initiative of Cardinal Roche.”

By AC Wimmer, CNA - What is more, the departing delegates — three of whom are university professors, and two are Ratzinger Prize winners — accused the process organizers of using pressure tactics not commensurate with synodality... Ahead of the German Synodal Way’s final meeting next month, four prominent participants — all of them women — officially announced they were quitting the controversial process on Wednesday.