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‘By His wounds we are healed.”– Is. 53:5b I left my father in knots, an occasional but not unfamiliar experience in that season. I began...

‘Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.’ -St. John Paul II After a couple weeks of...

I liked these guys but wouldn’t agree that they were ‘married.’ ‘Friends with benefits’ better described them. As we talked, it was clear...

Today marks both the final day of Pride month and the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Celebrating life under the ‘rainbow’...

‘Now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ’ (Eph. 2:13). To find the narrow way...

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

‘I shall lose none of those who the Father has given Me’ (Jn 6:39). I am welling up with joy. Still savoring the Living Waters intensive...

After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...

Ann meant well but her eyes, filling slowly with tears, belied her. She responded confidently at first to my question as to why she was...

Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...

Like you, I cannot fathom Biden’s declaration last month that the transgendered ‘shape America’s soul.’ Young people violating themselves...

Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...

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...

Something sweet and true runs through this film about hippies ‘getting saved’ in Woodstock-era Southern California. (I caught the...

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...

If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...

‘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...