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It can be tough to burn with hope for some LGBT+ persons; allergic to chastity, alive to sensational new ‘sexualities’, they frame us as...

Long before I centered on the Eucharist as the focus of worship—the real meal that Catholics celebrate–I understood this breaking of...

The Church’s authority to restore sexually broken people with the power that raised Jesus from the dead hinges on her repenting from...

Our gendered humanity—submitted to one another in reverence to Christ (Eph. 5:21)—points beyond itself. It reveals the One who made us to...

‘For you became sorrowful as God intended…Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow...

Fire. Burning. Notre Dame. Judgment at our house, right here, us. More than a sign of French resilience: a church, our Church. ‘Bearing’...

Though I love the benefits of Jesus’ cross, I am tempted to hate sharing in that cross with Him. It hurts to bear up under the burden He...

In prayer with our Lenten group, I saw a flag pole waving an image of the Lamb of God; at a closer glance I could see its base had...

I sent out a series of questions to my favorite priests and Rev. Msgr William J King who runs a Living Waters group in his parish...

What had been alien to me—a black-coated mystery, heady and aloof, men in rectories, celibate yet suspect—became engaging and vital...

In her face, I witnessed my sorrow and somehow could feel it. My friend conveyed simple pain over her (natural) father’s ongoing...

Chastity has taken a lot of hits lately. Many would deem this ‘successful integration of sexuality within the person’ (#2337) a failure,...

My face is a mess. Overexposed for years in the California sun, it now looks like rugged desert terrain, baked red by heat. I am...

The other night, I dreamt of complicity—a good friend and colleague had been pronounced innocent of murder yet I knew otherwise. She...

‘Just as there is a momentum to evil, so is there a momentum to repentance.’ Sour moods tempt me easily these days. As bishops from...

‘When Jesus saw the crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd’ (MK 6:34). If the wise-men are any...

I prepared myself for the worst last Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Family. I prophesied a dismal homily on the too-radiant-to-be-believed...

‘The beauty of the cathedral does not oppose the cross but is its fruit.’ – Cardinal Ratzinger The other morning in prayer I was startled...

‘O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires…All...

‘I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing…Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell...