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‘In this world, God loves nothing more than the liberty of the Church.’ St. Anselm AB 2943, which prohibits churches from selling...

As I prepared to run the inaugural half-marathon in Kansas City for 2018, I reflected on the river of mercy Jesus released for us in...

‘We give you strict orders not to teach in His name.’ Peter and John replied: ‘Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to...

Jesus casts out robbers from His Father’s house for us. That starts with the integrity of our personal temples. He cares about our...

Our Lenten offering is prayer for the whole, broken Church. Not so hard. We are wholly broken, full of faith, bursting with seeds of hope...

‘In the Church, God has put Himself into hands that betray Him over and over.’ Pope Emeritus Benedict I was outraged. A well-known...

The next few weeks beg the question: ‘What is home to me?’ Holidays highlight our origins and our goals surrounding home. In the...

‘We are struck down but not destroyed, always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus that the life of Jesus may also be revealed...

Last week, November 1st, the day the Church honors her members on earth and heaven, we buried my son Nick’s second child Elizabeth in a...

Fasting is about solidarity with those who suffer; in our self-emptying, we cry out for Jesus to restore them. He suffered; He now lives...

We begin our 40-days of prayer and fasting this Wednesday the 11th; we seek together to become good news for persons vulnerable to the...

As we commence our 40-days of prayer and fasting next Wednesday on October 11th, I pose the question: why pray more? Let me count the...

How do we embody the Gospel for persons enslaved to the false liberties of our day? We pray, and ask God to give us mercy, vision and...

Why did I sign up in the first place? I’ve ridden thousands of miles on bike but have never raced, let alone raced at 7500 feet in the...

I am just winding up a month off in which I spent a lot of time with the one I love most—me! Ouch. Truth hurts. Gratefully my native...

‘He who loves his life will lose it.’ (JN 12:25) ‘Because we are vulnerable we can be brave,’ says Joseph Pieper. CAN be brave. The truth...

‘To love a person means to see him as God created him to be.’ Dostoevsky Kate led a home group where she befriended and cared for...

Lent begins with hope. We start with Jesus, hope’s foundation. We can bear the mark, a little cross on the forehead, because He has gone...

Before speaking to a group of students at Florida’s Ave Maria University, I requested prayer and my host Scott and a kind priest...

The din surrounding Trump’s presidency invites me to sink into the Source, like a child escaping the surface noise by descending into a...