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I joined the Catholic Church because (among other things) of her witness of marriage and chastity; I die daily as a Catholic because of...

Words fail to express the suffering endured by persons who resist identification with their biological gender. Left-leaning analysts...

Chastity: Order in Our Courts Following Jesus to Calvary requires temperance, that gift of the Holy Spirit which sets love in order...

I usually hate to travel during this desert season but I could not resist the temptation to invite myself to the first assembly of 100...

My good friend and colleague Dr. Joseph Nicolosi passed away yesterday from an unexpected, swift illness. I am in shock. He is the man...

Before speaking to a group of students at Florida’s Ave Maria University, I requested prayer and my host Scott and a kind priest...

‘The Word became flesh and made His dwelling with us’ (JN 1:14). In youthful efforts to find ‘home’, a place of belonging where my part...

What woke us up? Was it Covergirl magazine featuring its first ‘coverboy,’ a dude whose extreme makeup blurs any gender distinctions? Was...

I ran along the river in old town Kaunas, Lithuania. As I considered the convergence of streams most dear to me, my heart overflowed and...

Sin makes you sick. Porn makes you sicker. The other night, far from home, I had to alter a plane ticket in the wee hours. A couple days...

This fall, we advance in three exciting ways for the Body of Christ. Desert Stream Ministries is about helping make the Church a...

‘The Church must accompany with attention and care the weakest of her children by restoring their hope like a torch carried among the...

Francis’ long awaited report on marriage and family is good news, a hearty hug of a document that encompasses the best of what marital...

‘Unless a grain of wheat dies it remains alone. If it dies, it produces much fruit.’ I met Benjie Cruz in Bangkok Thailand, 2000, at our...

‘She who has been forgiven of much will love much’ (LK 7:47). Turning from our unchaste ways becomes beautiful when we turn toward Jesus....

For the last five years, I’ve wondered why the Church begins each year on January 1st by honoring Mary as Christ-bearer, the one who...

‘A person’s resurrection is no personal privilege for himself alone. It contains within itself hope for all, hope for everything.’...

Nothing conveys God’s love better than telling our stories of God’s unfailing love. Our surrender to His on the Cross has become for us...

Report on Family Synod Last month I addressed a group of Catholic leaders in Rome on the transforming power of Jesus’ love, through His...

‘See, I have placed before you an open door that cannot be shut’ (Rev. 3:8). The free and demanding door to chastity cannot be shut. It...