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THE NEXT STEP FORWARD Blindness is a universal ailment that afflicts all of us. We may not need the restoration of physical sight. But what we do need is vision, something to get us moving in the right direction. We need to see who we are before God, where we are going and what we must do along the way. READ MORE

AMERICA'S MORAL POWER IS THE FIRST CASUALTY IN IRAN The most famous quote about war has it that the first casualty of war is the truth, but for Muslims and other people of faith in the Middle East, the most important casualty of Operation Epic Fury may be the last wisp of America’s moral standing. THE HOLY SEE AND IRAN IN THE NEW WORLD DISORDER The fate of the Middle East, and with it the fate of world peace, will be decided in the coming hours and days. The prayer that Leo XIV raised from the window of the Apostolic Palace is also a political program: stop the violence, restore the primacy of diplomacy, and look to the good of peoples. It is the least that history asks of us.   AT UNIQUE POLITICAL MOMENT, CATHOLIC TRADITION PROVIDES PROPHETIC WAY FORWARD The growing response by Catholic leaders to the deliberate and persistent government cruelty imposed on the most vulnerable in our society represents a new moment for U.S. Catholics. It is a moment fraught with no small measure of risk.   IN THESE HOPELESS TIMES, HOPE IS A GIFT AND A CHOICE Hope is a core Christian virtue, something we talk about in homilies and faith-sharing groups, read about in Scripture and teach to the next generation. So, how are we to understand hope and where are we to find it today? WHAT LED ST. POPE JOHN XXIII TO CALL VATICAN II? Vatican II did not drop out of the sky. There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council: The first was spiritual and theological; the second was pastoral and existential and the third was personal and historical. THERE MAY NEVER BE A PERFECT MASS TRANSLATION Wasn’t the challenge to accessing liturgical meaning (and actively participating in the transformational grace received in liturgical celebration) precisely the problem the employment of vernacular languages hoped to solve? CREATION AND THE GAZE OF JESUS A Lenten Way of the Cross, offered by the Laudato Si’ Circle: a Creation Care Team at St. Patrick’s Church, Pelham, NH REFLECTIONS FROM SAINTS ON LENT: FASTING, PENANCE, AND CONVERSION Lent is not only a time of self denial but also of transformation. Six saints and blesseds have offered the following profound reflections on how to live this time authentically through fasting and conversion of heart. A BLESSING AND A CURSE Lent is a chance to grapple with the paradox of the cross as blessing and curse. The mystery of the cross may never be understood except in the context of the blessing-curse paradox.