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‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...

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...

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

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

‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...

‘It is Jesus who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed...

‘Now we see through a glass darkly…’ (I Cor. 13:12) Blame it on too much pressure. Too many important decisions that impact thousands of...

‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...

‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...

‘The concrete challenge of love can’t be separated from Him; it is always in Him.’ Karol Wojtyla Along with several others, John Wimber...

‘Jesus testifies that the mystery of creation becomes the power of the mystery of redemption’ (Theology of the Body 46:5). John Wimber...

“What Christ demands of His listeners in the Sermon on the Mount belongs to that space in which man must rediscover the lost fullness of...

‘St. John Paul II made the world consider its need for redemption, and that the need had been met in the life, death and resurrection of...

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

‘It is only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes clear.’ (Gaudium et Spes 22) John Wimber inspired...

‘A new teaching--and with authority!’ (Mk 1:27) Two very different men united in one Gospel—one Polish, the first non-Italian pope in 450...

My friend Mark engages regularly with Kim, a cancer-stricken cousin. As the only Christian in the family, he prays sensitively yet firmly...

I know my beloved daughter well. I fight for her best, especially when she refuses the beauty that I see. I am so proud of her. I love...

‘Do you think that I have come to bring peace? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against...

‘I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing’ (Lk 12:49). I’m built to burn. Gospel flames long to...