Lent is a special time – a time of reflection and conversion. It is a time of prayer, almsgiving and fasting. During the Lenten season we are particularly invited to reflect upon the life, Passion, death, and Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ – especially how it relates to our own lives, our growth in our faith, and growth in our love relationship with God...
Participation in the Holy Mass is central and indispensable to the believer, and reception of the Holy Eucharist is our "medicine of immortality." While online streaming of Mass has been immeasurably helpful of the course of the pandemic, it can never replace the assembly of the faithful...
by Bishop Louis F. Kihneman and Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz
We join our voices to vehemently denounce racism, a plague among us. It is an evil and a force of destruction that eats away at the soul of our nation. Ultimately, it is a moral problem that requires a moral remedy—a transformation of the human heart—and compels us to act. “The evil of racism festers in part because in our nation there has been very limited formal acknowledgement of the harm done to so many, no moment of atonement, no national process of reconciliation and all too often a neglect of our history.” (Open Wide Our Hearts)