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‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is...

‘Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart’ (Lk. 2:19, 51). Aging agitates me. Docility flows not peaceably from...

I couldn’t respect Pope Francis more for his heart for the poor. And like you, I love his jocular, down-to-earth style. Yet I find his...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director A couple of years ago, Andrew and I were running a half-marathon. On route, we passed my midtown...

by Annette Comiskey DSM Director at Large ”For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son...

I don’t like wounds. I’d rather avoid them: maybe the bloody mess will coagulate and heal itself. When I fractured my toes running, I...

‘The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy…’ (Jn. 10:10) Integration is wholeness, and God who created and redeems us, its...

‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...

Winnowing wheat from chaff in service of persons pursuing wholeness Clarify terms and set realistic expectations. Jesus grants us...

By Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Eve Tushnet, in her article ‘Conversion Therapy is Still Happening in Catholic Spaces – and its...

Twice now I have discerned the call to marriage. Once with a woman and once with a man. I am a woman driven by my desire to love fully,...

‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses’ (Acts 1:8). Easter primes us with the oil of...

Today marks my bride’s 65th birthday. Never lovelier, she reminds me that virtue deepens and resounds with age. Time amplifies faults as...

Here, evangelicals tremble: has Catholic-convert Comiskey gone over to the dark-side of Marian devotion? Is he in cahoots with the...

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