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Saying “Yes” to Satan, by Sean Fitzpatrick – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Saying “Yes” to Satan, by Sean Fitzpatrick

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Léon Bonnat, “Christ on the Cross”, c. 1874 (photo: Public Domain)

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine, March 13, 2026

Sean Fitzpatrick is a senior contributor to Crisis and serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys in Pennsylvania.

The world, now being unveiled, stands or falls on the faith and fortitude of Catholics willing to follow Christ as the persecution intensifies.

fitzpatrickLent remembers and mirrors Jesus fasting and praying in the desert for 40 days, when one of the most dramatic moments in the Gospel takes place: Christ’s temptation by the devil. Christ was not the only one to be tempted with these offerings of miracle, mystery, and authority. They have been Satan’s calling cards for millennia; and, in case you missed it, the ruling elites of secular society have fully accepted them in making the weird world of today—a world built on saying “yes” to Satan, a world in which the hatred of Catholicism is consequently central. …

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