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By Mary Rose, Catholic Vote - In the series trailer, Fr. Schmitz says the new series is built around a simple but often-overlooked reality: most people spend large portions of their lives waiting, yet few approach those moments with spiritual awareness... “The stats show that we spend up to several years of our lives waiting,” he said in the Waiting Well trailer. “Waiting in line, at red lights, waiting while friends and family get ready — we’re just constantly waiting. And instead of embracing those times of waiting, what do we do? We worry, we get anxious, and perhaps most of all, we check out and get lost scrolling on our phones.”

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - “The coming of the Son of Man” also refers to His promised return to this earth, when He will bring a definitive end to the evil that has haunted us since the Garden of Eden.  This coming will also bring judgment on that evil and all who willingly gave themselves to it.  For both the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Coming, the essence of Jesus’ warning is a call to “stay awake!”  Why is wakefulness so important to Him?... Jesus says that “the coming of the Son of Man” can be compared to the event of the Flood in Noah’s time, God’s first judgment on earth.  ...

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine - The surprise success of the new film Sacré Coeur: Son règne n’a pas de fin (Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End), released in French cinemas in September, has caused great controversy. It is no surprise that such a devoutly Catholic docudrama has divided opinion in French political society, in which laïcité—strictly enforced state secularism, the lingering legacy of the French Revolution—is seen by many as the very defining principle of the French Republic.