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I went to bed exhausted after our fifth Living Waters training in Poland. Like you, I am bombarded with news feeds featuring everything...

‘I shall lose none of those who the Father has given Me’ (Jn 6:39). I am welling up with joy. Still savoring the Living Waters intensive...

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...

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...

'Secure attachment means the child feels confident that others will be there to protect, comfort and support him…insecure attachment...

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...

‘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...

‘The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name—He will teach you everything…’ (Jn. 14:26) What were they thinking?...

Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...

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, 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...

‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...