Here, I'll help our archbishop disseminate his Lenten pastoral letter. I'll summarize it (albeit somewhat more abruptly) for you here: go to confession. If you need more encouragement or convincing, here's the text of it. To show that this is more than just empty words, Archbishop Wuerl has directed priests in the archdiocese to make confession available for a good chunk of time on Wednesday evenings (7:00-8:30). And he's visiting parishes to hear confessions himself.
As a bonus of sorts, here is this letter from the bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph that I happened to find the other day, On the Dignity of the Human Person and the Dangers of Pornography, that I'll post just to increase the chances that someone who needs the encouragement will run across it. By no means is it dry legalistic or puritanical moralizing; it is good Catholic theology and observation on human nature laid out practically and plainly without jargon, biblically rooted, explained sensitively but without pulling any punches.
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