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Self-Selection: The Problem with Our Penance

During Lent, the Church calls us to prayer, almsgiving, and, perhaps most prominently, fasting. What does Lenten fasting and penance look like? Well, besides the lenient strictures of abstaining from meat on Fridays and eating a little less on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the Church leaves our penitential practices Read more…

By Daniel Staudt, 4 weeksApril 10, 2025 ago
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Laxism is a moral position that in a position of doubt tends to the easiest or least demanding alternative. Christians certainly suffer from this position, but I want to focus rather an the general laxity of the practice of penance, which continues to wear thin with almost nothing expected of Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 2 yearsMarch 21, 2023 ago
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