What Are You Doing for Lent?

“What are you doing for Lent?” It’s the most popular topic going these days among my Catholic and non-Catholic friends. Or at least, the most popular topic after when is this crazy winter ever going to end. And maybe, at some level, they’re related.

Pope Francis, no slouch when it comes to challenging the faithful, has urged us to consider St. Paul’s call to live “a life of evangelical poverty.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reminds us of the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting, a...