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

‘Jesus, You are everything to a lonely soul.’ St. Faustina Mark was among the brightest of Living Waters’ young lights; he faced his...

‘The rights of black people are gay rights and the rights of gay people are black rights.’ Kevin Jennings Living in a city built on a...

Emptied and wearied by well-doing, I subjected myself to fools—fantasies that rushed into my void like sewage. I was as wanted and...

‘Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.’ (LK 2:19) Many of us experience a tension between prayer and action....

‘All I wanted, something special, something sacred in your eyes; I will be your father-figure…’ George Michael The pop singer died on...

‘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...

John the Baptist, imprisoned and burning with hope for the Messiah, sends friends to check out if this Jesus is the real deal. Christ’s...

Around the same time (mid-seventies) and place (San Francisco) that Harvey Milk aspired to become the first openly gay politician in...

‘Zeal for His House has Consumed Me.’ (JN 2:17) In order ‘to contend for the faith entrusted to all the saints’ (Jude 3), we must follow...

We ‘equip holy ones for the work of the ministry…so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of...

‘We fully “become” our true selves within relationships. A positive sense of self, rooted in worth and value, arises out of an attuned,...

By Brian Barlow On a recent trip to San Diego, I was given an unexpected gift for my birthday. My bride Nichole had been planning this...

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

‘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...

His smooth smiling face may have belied a deeper conflict but none was apparent. Jim responded to my story of sexual brokenness and...

During one week in December, the New York Times highlighted the following Broadway comedies and musicals: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot’ about two...

‘John was a lamp that burned and gave light.’ (JN 6:35) I could hardly believe my ears. Surrounded by a host of earnest men, most cradle...

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

‘In today’s society, we grant adults any kind of sexual freedom they want and insist that children take whatever these adults are willing...