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‘Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.’ -St. John Paul II After a couple weeks of...

I liked these guys but wouldn’t agree that they were ‘married.’ ‘Friends with benefits’ better described them. As we talked, it was clear...

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...

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

‘Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion...’ (1 Tim. 3:15) ​ I just crossed the 65-year-old mark where Medicare agents ask you upbeat...

If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...

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...

Why does Christmas Day fold into the stoning of Stephen? Why does your calendar, O Church, disturb our reverie with bloodshed? Why must...

‘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...

‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...

‘How, Wojtyla asks, can men and women become responsible lovers, so that our sexual love embodies a genuine freedom?... I cannot achieve...

‘Whenever I remember the beautiful days of our salvation, I can almost smell the orange blossoms again. The whole experience for both of...

I could see and hear how much he wanted the relationship to work, to be true: he needed this new guy to be the one that silenced all the...

‘When You send Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the earth.’ (PS 104:30) The branches are beckoning. Two peach trees I...

I am happy this Liberty Day. America’s top court finally got it right. We defend the unborn living and give voice to their real lives. We...

By Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Review of ‘Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure...

A gander honked me off a running path in Raleigh as to make way for ‘mother’ goose and five goslings. Marvel overtook my startled...

‘A humanitarian corridor is a zone intended to allow safe transit of aid and of refugees out of a crisis.’ All hell broke loose in the...

No-one embodies the living hope of Jesus better than Dean Greer, our Living Waters USA Manager, and wife Chrystal. I met Dean in San...

‘Advent is the time of the promise, not the fulfillment.’ Fr. Alfred Delp Adele fever is back. Her new album ‘30’ is selling faster than...