Anger––or anxiety, or arousal, or envy, or fear, or loneliness, or sadness––does not separate us from God.

Do we aspire to elevate and beautify the world, or do we want merely to change it?

What can we do this Lent to have a sense of starting over?

...Especially now we need Sabbath time, time to let God’s angels care for us.

This Lent, perhaps we are not called to voluntary deprivations.

What positive things can we do to nurture our emotional connections and reduce the separation?

The Paulist Fathers endorse "God Is On Your Side: A Statement from Catholic Bishops on Protecting LGBT Youth."

Lent is… not a season of punishment so much as one of healing.

Like Jesus, go to your lonely place, where, absorbed in prayer, you allow yourself to be absorbed in the God of life and love.

Patricia Simpson, pastoral administrator of the Paulist Center in Boston, on life and ministry during the pandemic.

I don’t think we should ever call anyone a “nut job” or a “snowflake.”

Brothers and sisters, evil is coming toward you. But if I were evil, I would think twice, for even as it comes for you, you...