Saying “Yes” to Satan

Lent remembers and mirrors Jesus fasting and praying in the desert for 40 days, when one of the most dramatic moments in the Gospel takes place: Christ’s temptation by the devil. Christ was not the only one to be tempted with these offerings of miracle, mystery, and authority. They have been Satan’s calling cards for millennia; and, in case you missed it, the ruling elites of secular society have fully accepted them in making the weird world of today—a world built on saying “yes” to Satan, a world in which the hatred of Catholicism is consequently central.