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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - This global pandemic is no different. For this reason, pro-life and pro-family individuals—and lovers of faith and freedom—have every reason to be suspicious when longtime anti-national globalists, sympathizers with China’s communist and authoritarian government, and enthusiastic supporters of population control and legal and government-funded abortion and contraception step forward to suggest that they have the solution to our current problem… For example, Bill and Melinda Gates have made it quite clear that population control is at the very tip-top of their priority list.

By Michael Morris, Crisis Magazine - Trading in a sober view of our final ends for raw power has almost certainly been the Faustian transaction of our time. Then again, it truly is baked into the human experience, terminating with that infamous serpent who hoodwinked our first parents with his somatic wager to recast us as gods.  The payout was anything but—paving the way for sickness, death, and divorce from the Almighty.  In this sense, we live in a time that has done little but simply doubled down on the sins that withdrew us from paradise.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - When we encounter the resurrection accounts in the New Testament, we face a challenge in putting all the pieces together in such a way that the sequence of events flows in logical order. This is due to the fact that no one Gospel presents all or even most of the information. Some of the accounts seem to conflict. I have opined before that these apparent conflicts are usually not in fact true conflicts. Another difficulty with putting all the facts together in a coherent manner is that the timeline of the events is unclear in some of the accounts. Luke and John are the clearest as to the timing of the events they describe…

By Father Roger Landry, EWTN New - Few would have foreseen, as we packed into pews on Ash Wednesday, the Lent we had in store: that our fast would become an involuntary one from the Living Bread, that our almsgiving would feature social distancing from those in need, and that our prayer would occur mostly in the domestic church and in cyberspace… This year we have all been led into the desert, separated from the distractions of sports, late-night shows, parties, outside commitments, even face-to-face contact with friends, neighbors and extended family.