The wounds of the Holocaust, particularly in the relations between the Roman Catholic Church and worldwide Jewry, will not be healed until they are healed in Poland.

Historically, on Good Friday, Christians went on murderous rampages against Jews as"Christ-killers."  But Christians are the real "Christ-killers." We nail Jesus to the Cross every day by our sins.

The 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have spread worldwide since beginning in 1935  but its principles date to the early Christian desert monks and ascetics who practiced strict spiritual discipline, called the Via Purgativa, the way of purification.

The Roman Catholic Church still has a long way to go to develop a respectful relationship of equality with the Jewish people and Judaism as a religion 

Are you careful with money, yet still sinking into debt?  The decline of the middle class began in the 1980s, when social values eroded and warnings against debt were cast aside.

Many readers responded to my original essay on our debt-driven way of living in "Going Broke on $44,500 a Year," published in the San Jose Mercury News. Here are some of the suggestions that they offered to solve the middle class debt crisis.

Try this Financial Worksheet!  1. Add up your total assets. 2. Add up your total assets a month later. 3. Calculate the change: 2-1 = 3. Is #3 positive? You've saved money, and your income is greater than your expenses. If #3 negative, you're in the hole and sliding down the rabbit hole of debt and illusion. All the rest is details.

Fifth Sunday of Advent (Novus Ordo)
...I will open your graves ...and bring you back to the land of Israel. 

Passion Sunday (Tridentine Latin Mass)
Do me justice, O God, and fight my fight against a faithless people...

Ash Wednesday (Novus Ordo, Year A) ... Rend  your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God...

Ash Wednesday (Tridentine Latin Mass) ... thou hast mercy upon all... and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.

First Sunday of Lent, February 22, 2026 (Novus Ordo, Year A)
The LORD God formed man .. so man became a living being...

I Sunday of Lent, February 22, 2026
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will deliver him and glorify him; with length of days I will gratify him.

Solemnity,Annunciation of the Lord, Wed., 3/25/26 (N.O.) ... the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child...

Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Wed., 3/25/26 (TLM) Feria IV, Passion Week. Commentary on propers.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the spiritual combat of Lent. Dom Prosper Guéranger notes we face two enemies, internal passions and external devils, both from our pride and refusal to obey God. God forgave him his sin, but He punished him.

Sermon for First Sunday of Advent, St. Alphonsus Liqouri At present God is not known, and, therefore, he is as much despised by sinners, as if he could not avenge, whenever he pleases, the injuries offered to him.

Sermon XIX. On the Danger to which tepidity exposes the soul. "But Jesus hid himself." John, 8:59.  ... What then are we to understand by a tepid soul? A tepid soul is one that frequently falls into fully deliberate venial sins such as deliberate lies, deliberate acts of impatience, deliberate imprecations, and the like.