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Note: This blog was originally published on July 22nd, 2018. I am excited about a new booklet I just wrote– ‘Becoming Good News’ –a...

Note: This blog was originally published on July 13th, 2023. After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing...

‘Each and every marital act must remain open to the transmission of life…that teaching is founded upon the inseparable connection between...

God is younger than all else. St. Augustine   I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

A friend of mine in a hard relationship approached me, cast down. As he looked up, I saw moist eyes and from them, a small stream (in the...

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).   Andy has described our family as bombastic; I prefer...

‘…as we are raised with Christ, so at least some animals are raised in us. We know, indeed, that a great deal…is raised in the redeemed...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

Please. We love the Holy Family: Joseph, Mary, Jesus. As the embodiment of binary goodness, we need their witness more than ever. Think...

‘God is with us: that was the promise, and we have wept and pleaded for it. And it has been realized in accordance with each individual’s...

Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...

Contending for Compassion ‘Ain’t there one **** song that can make me break down and cry?’– David Bowie Only Jesus’ love song over His...

Overcoming Domestic Violence ‘Without a firm understanding of our biological sex and the God-given purpose of men and women to love,...

‘The light shines in darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it.’- John 1:5 The only good thing about Pope Francis’ confusing...

My self-sufficiency dies hard. I’m still learning that when I cry out to the Lord, He is faithful to answer. For the last 6 months, I...

Ann meant well but her eyes, filling slowly with tears, belied her. She responded confidently at first to my question as to why she was...

My Christmas started with a minor miracle. Really. Chalk it up to St. Joseph. I am not inclined to pray to saints, even if legendary like...

‘When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home’ (Mt 1:24). I write this in sheer...

‘We have firmly hoped, we will always hope, and we are and will be happy.’ Karol Wojtyla Bearing the weight of a billion person Church in...

St. John Paul II rallied more men to the priesthood than any pope in modern history. Everywhere I go in the Catholic world I witness...