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‘Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled or afraid’ (Jn 14:27). Not as easy as it sounds. Sure,...

The Crucified rallied the nations last week in Kansas City; under the flood of His Divine Mercy, we wept for joy. Ecstasy. No better way...

‘Justice without mercy is cruelty.’ Thomas Aquinas When St. John (JN 8:1-12) describes the Pharisees hauling the adulterous woman before...

‘Mercy without justice is the mother of disintegration.’ Thomas Aquinas Conviction for sexual sin is dull today. We no longer feel bad...

‘The Church must accompany with attention and care the weakest of her children by restoring their hope like a torch carried among the...

I spent Divine Mercy weekend in Ubon Thailand near the Laos border. Beneath a bamboo cross, an international team welcomed a diverse...

His smooth smiling face may have belied a deeper conflict but none was apparent. Jim responded to my story of sexual brokenness and...

‘…Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, in...

‘We seek to be chaste because someone we love needs us to be chaste.’ Heather King Justice means giving to another what is due him or...

The Samaritan woman of John 4 represents many Christians today; you could say she is a ‘type’ of the Church in the 21st century. Her...

One habit to which I attribute any good that comes from me is abiding before the Crucified. Each morning I awake to a Franciscan cross...

Mercy: An urgent call for testimony Barbara Vittucci (a longstanding friend of DSM/LW, Barb resides in Vienna, Austria and has been a...

‘The Samaritan woman is every one of us. She is every human being who has ever sinned and betrayed the God who loved and made us, by...

How lovely to see others through the eyes of mercy. And painful. At times it is necessary to see with those eyes the damage we do to one...

‘I could strengthen you with talk, or shake my head with silent lips.’ (Jb 16:5) I spoke to him plainly of the dangers of ‘gay marriage,’...

‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.’ (Matt. 5:7) Mercy is the heart of God. Fittingly, mercy is the core theme of...

How do you love someone whose self has become a defense? My friend John found it easier to present outrageous escapades than the longings...

‘Now on His way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As He was going into a village, ten men who...

‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will...

‘These matters are in my hands and I will bring them to fruition according to My Mercy, for nothing can oppose My will.’ Jesus to St....