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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on March 27, 2024.

eNewsletter Subject: Lenten and Easter wonder

As we prepare for Easter, there is no sense sugar-coating our concerns about the state of the Church. Indeed, all the more reason to proclaim again our faith in the Resurrection as the crown of suffering and death.

To begin this week’s analysis, Phil Lawler—amid repeated assurances that Pope Francis is perfectly healthy—wonders Why doesn’t Pope Francis celebrate Mass?

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky appropriately regards our sins as the enemy of our own resurrected joy. See his latest reflection: Risking Hellfire.

Meanwhile, I return to the questions raised in the movie Cabrini about St. Frances’ holiness and humility. My strange, uncontemporary method was simply to read her biography: Better than the movie? A biography of Mother Cabrini.

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