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Charles J. Chaput
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Archbishop of Philadelphia

Articles By Charles J. Chaput

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On the Threshold of Lent

The great Catholic writer Georges Bernanos once said that, “the world will be saved only by free men. We must make a world for free men.” He wrote those words nearly 70 years ago in the wake of a terrible world war. He understood from painful experience that man is made for God — and without faith, there can be no real freedom, only distractions and idolatries that eventually consume man himself.

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Lent and the Road Less Traveled

What Francis of Assisi and every other great saint discovered in their time is that we become who we really are — we experience life most vividly — when we allow Jesus Christ to transform and work through us.  Each of us as disciples receives a call to share in God’s power to give life.  That’s the meaning of the prayer we all learned as children:

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Three Simple Questions on the Threshold of Lent

Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, falls on March 5 this year. Lived well, Lent can convert the heart and transform a person’s life. That’s the whole point of the season – to ready us for the miracle of Easter. But self-examination, repentance and reconciliation are rarely painless; they can sound a lot easier in theory than they are in practice.

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Roe V. Wade and Christian Witness: 41 Years Later

January 22 marks the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wadedecision, legalizing abortion on demand. Thanks to Roe, abortion has killed more than 50 million unborn children over the past four decades – the equivalent of roughly one in six living Americans; an entire generation extinguished. But alongside the killing spree, and despite the contempt of abortion activists and unfriendly media, the prolife counter-witness of millions of Americans has alsocontinued.