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‘What the Church needs going forward is a leader who can marry personal simplicity with a passion for converting the world to Jesus...

The best-kept secret of Pope Francis’ papacy? Robust chastity, blazing in sinner’s sick of filth and on fire for the One who forgave and...

Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis just two years into my Catholic commitment. This began a deeply personal, disruptive, and...

‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

God is younger than all else. St. Augustine   I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

Compassion for the Alien  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17)  ‘Migrants are among the first victims of multiple forms of...

Think  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17)    ‘I’ve come to know more and more the profound this-worldliness of...

Grateful for this tiny Adoration chapel: a safe space to love this Head whose Body threatens to divide my heart. Like you, I’ve wounds...

‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...

If I were an LGBTQ+-identified person, I would be mad. How can Pope Francis bless me as ‘one born that way, God made me that way, and the...

‘We cannot separate the masculine and the feminine from God’s work of creation, which is prior to all our decisions and experiences, and...

I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

“The bishops are oblivious to the implications of Fiducia Supplicans,” I grumbled to my spiritual director. “I don’t think that’s true,...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Andrew Comiskey and Marco Casanova ‘Our freedom hinges on realizing truthful integrity.’- St. John Paul II Two groups protest our...

‘We have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. Rather, by setting forth the...

My ‘gay’-identified friend Tim needs Jesus. Finally. It’s taken decades and a terminal condition for him to soften to the God-man. And I...

Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...