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October 11th-November 19th, 2023 ‘I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Him’ (2 Cor....

Originally published March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’- St....

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

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, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...

What if your pastor asked you to help make your church a healing community for the sexually broken? This is what I would say: As a young...

‘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...

‘In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood’ (Heb. 12:4). Guys tend to be soft these...

At first I was angry. How could parents do this to a beloved child? Framed in their Christmas greeting, the parents beam upon 3-year-old...

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...

Original entry date: March 14, 2016 God calls each of us to be a river of life for others. Chastity liberates that flow; sourced in...

’Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good’ (Rom. 12:21) Pride Month is upon us once more. Inevitably, all-things-rainbow...

‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...

‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘“The doctrine of virtue” was one of the great discoveries in the history of man’s self-understanding…It has become a basic component of...

‘The task of conjugal chastity, and still more specifically of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance of and the dignity...