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‘Real love is neither static nor uncritical. If there is any possibility at all of changing another person for the better, then it is...

‘The weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.’ -1 Cor. 1:25 Feverish and weary, I prepped for a men’s conference in Lithuania...

Part 1: Mistaken Identity Simon Kent Fung does. Believe the Church kills ‘gay’ people, that is, like Alana Chen on whom he based his...

Previously published on March 21, 2010 While doing a conference in Denver many years ago, a vigorous young man introduced himself to me...

‘By His wounds we are healed.”– Is. 53:5b I left my father in knots, an occasional but not unfamiliar experience in that season. I began...

‘Now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ’ (Eph. 2:13). To find the narrow way...

After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...

One year ago, as I left home for Mass to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for the Body of Christ), I had no idea that my life...

‘When we find ourselves in the presence of such beautiful souls, we cannot but discover in them an obvious sign of the experience of...

“Erotic love shows most vividly one of the deepest paradoxes of human life: that we are complete and fulfilled not so much in being...

Not long after Easter, I awoke with music in my soul–the beautiful chant melodies and simple lyrics that narrated the weekend's services....

Like you, I cannot fathom Biden’s declaration last month that the transgendered ‘shape America’s soul.’ Young people violating themselves...

‘In this desolation we find Jesus, triumphant over death and shockingly alive, present to us in ways we can’t understand, much less...

Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...

Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...

Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...

Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...

Something sweet and true runs through this film about hippies ‘getting saved’ in Woodstock-era Southern California. (I caught the...

Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...

Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...