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Original entry date: June 14, 2013 in our Mid-Year Newsletter On her Feast Day, I recall that St. Mary Magdalene is considered by the...

Original Entry Date: October 21, 2014 ‘The Cross becomes a new center of gravity for bringing together what is divided.’ Pope Emeritus...

Jesus unflinchingly washes the feet of His friends. He cleans them up to send them out. Jesus stoops to wash my filthy feet. He falls to...

‘When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?’ (Ps. 11:3) The man dressed as a woman shook the vial in his hands...

Easter lasts longer than any other holy season. Makes sense. God invites us to linger in the waters, to immerse ourselves in new life—to...

“O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in you!” – Chaplet of Divine Mercy A...

I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...

‘We are more important to God than all the sins we commit. But He does not and cannot bless sin. He blesses sinful man, so that he may...

‘At once the Spirit sent Him out into the desert, and He was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild...

‘Our commitment on issues of human sexuality [and every other area] are guided by Christ’s commandment to love and to stand in solidarity...

‘To authentically live Christmas is to be born again with that little baby, who speaks constantly to us about the infinite, faithful, and...

“Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) Today is known as “Gaudete Sunday” (Gaudete--Latin “rejoice”). We set a fire to the lone rose-colored candle. The...

I was a high school senior in 1974 and our church youth group was obsessed with the Broadway show Godspell, a then hip, countercultural...

‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...

‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...

‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...

‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....

‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘Justice is the virtue which enables man to give to each one his due.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 44) ‘We cannot state...