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‘…the power of deep feeling seems to serve me, only to deceive me.’ Joni Mitchell Emotions confirm our wonderful, conflictual humanity....

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

I grew up in church, hearing sermons about God’s intentions for man and woman, the preciousness of purity and why we shouldn’t 'give...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline Press...

‘The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy…’ (Jn. 10:10) Integration is wholeness, and God who created and redeems us, its...

St. Paul counters the slavish sexual immorality tempting Christians by urging them ‘to possess their bodies in holiness and reverence’ (1...

Integration (an ‘integer’ is a whole number but can broaden to include something whole in itself) grants us a map for wholeness. It is a...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for St John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline Press...

Every human being is a gift from God. Before we are born from natural descent, tossed and anchored by parental decisions and...

‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...

Freedom figures in big to the Gospel: Jesus declares that His truth ‘sets us free’, fully and completely, while St. Paul declares to us...

Last week, my son Nick asked me to preach the sermon for his ‘institution’ as senior rector. (Nick’s new post takes he and wife Meg from...

Original entry date: Spring 2017 Newsletter Conversion: The realization that a loved one has assumed a false identity invites you to go...

Original entry date: March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’ Aquinas...