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Another Lent. We don ashes as a sign of repentance. We let go of vain things in order to take up what matters. May I suggest you walk...

‘For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.’ (Phil. 2:21) The focal point of our faith and of most...

Pope Francis launched a thousand speculations when he quipped ‘who am I to judge?’ in response to a journalist’s questions about persons...

Last week, the New York Times featured an article on the uproar provoked by the firing of a Catholic High School VP in Seattle because he...

“In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband; you will no longer call me my master…I will betroth you to me forever; I...

‘I urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’…for ‘godless ones have changed the grace of God into...

My wife Annette observed an 8-year-old boy in a waiting room trying to make sense of a photo in People magazine of two men in tuxes,...

New evidence now exists to show a host of challenges to kids of gay parents. Professor Mark Regenerus found that, when compared to adults...

I grieve for the church. I grieve that the church offends God by misusing His Name. Mostly I grieve for the young homosexual Christian...

Many see the end in sight: finally, our nation is recognizing that homosexuality is a moral good—utterly normal, utterly on par with...

Ascension of Christ. Woodcut after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 - 1872), published in 1877. ‘Unless I...

How tragic that the most influential political leader on earth would use his power to redefine marriage. He bowed his knee to the lie...

If we want to be more like Jesus, we must be with Him more. And do less of everything else. Our roots must sink and stay deep in the...

— Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused No wound runs deeper in the Church today than the sexual abuse of children by her...

— False Mercy 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 7 The great sins of the world are superficial wounds on My Heart, but the...

‘How can I not?’ he reasoned, as he listed the divorces, affairs, co-habitation and children born out-of-wedlock in his family. We are...

He made his case boldly–I am gay, I am good, I am normal. Rosie O’Donnell said it incredulously in a recent interview: ‘Can you believe...

I wanted you to know that on Easter (April 2011) this past year I was confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church. That significant decision...

A dear friend recently eulogized his mother with these words: ‘You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name.’ (PS 61:5) The...

And God is always faithful to reduce me to mercy when I have majored on other things. He does this through suffering, through the slow...