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The best word to characterize the daily Mass readings of Lent is dismal. Even today’s Hebrew Scripture portion, in which Moses discusses how God kicked some Egyptian tail and why that deserves some dap and some grub, emphasizes words like “suffer” and “toil” and “harsh” and “oppression” and I have no shortage of further [...]

I think most of us know what Catholic schoolboys give up for Lent.  (You don’t?  Well, it rhymes with fornication and has other similarities).  And thus, most of us know what Catholic schoolboys are doing at 11:55 p.m. on Fat Tuesday.  (Not that you should be thinking of such things).  The theory, of course, is [...]