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Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...

Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...

‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...

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

‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...

‘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...

‘Humanity is going through a remarkably fluid period of history…a time of collapsing values and ideologies in which he who wishes to go...

‘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...

‘The true self isn’t found when we are looking for it; it’s found when we are looking for Him.’ C.S. Lewis The dream disturbed me at...

‘The great choice posed to the human person in the modern world: deciding between sanctity and the loss of one’s humanity.’ (Witness to...

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

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 the face of children declaring to their parents any number of LGBTQ+ selves, I always listen for the father’s response. Not much to...

I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...

Building A Bridge film review How you tell a story can cover a multitude of sins. Watching Amazon’s documentary on a-not-very-good-book...

‘A humanitarian corridor is a zone intended to allow safe transit of aid and of refugees out of a crisis.’ All hell broke loose in the...

‘In You there is forgiveness, so You are to be feared’ (Psalm 130:4). ‘The purpose of Lent…is to create a healthy hatred of evil, a...

Or so goes the tagline for France’s new law that bans ‘conversion therapies’ and authorizes jail time and fines for persons who accompany...