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