Throughout Lent, we’ve stayed close to Jesus. We’ve tried to pray more, to live in his presence, and to imagine ourselves in the Gospel scenes we’ve read. We’ve made sacrifices and offered penance, but inconsistently and halfheartedly. The measure of a good Lent is getting to know ourselves better and recognising our weakness. Our failures this Lent serve us well. They keep us humble. We need Jesus. [...]

Trying to awaken the conscience of the world to reject the “culture of death” which creates “structures of sin,” St. Pope John Paul II wrote in Evangelium Vitae, “How can we fail to consider the violence against life done to millions of human beings, especially children, who are forced into poverty, malnutrition and hunger because of an unjust distribution of resources between peoples and between social classes? [...]