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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...

St. John Paul II rallied more men to the priesthood than any pope in modern history. Everywhere I go in the Catholic world I witness...

‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...

‘I’m change in His pocket. He can spend me any way He wants.’ John Wimber Both Wimber and Karol Wojtyla died as apostolic Christian...

‘If God’s got me nailed to the cross for my good, I’m not going to climb down off the cross and wreck the whole purpose of this painful...

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

“Before I was born the Lord called me…He made my mouth like a sharpened sword; in the shadow of His hand He hid me. He made me into a...

Hardships in childhood hinder and help. Much seems to depend on the person experiencing them. For John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla, gaps in...

‘Man must enter into Him with all his own self; he must appropriate and assimilate the whole reality of the Incarnation and redemption.’...

John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla possessed sharp creative minds that joined together disparate ideas. The resulting wholeness became a love...

‘When You send Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the earth.’ (PS 104:30) The branches are beckoning. Two peach trees I...

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...

We have lost holy fear. A virtual search on the topic yielded an underwear ad and a 5-point tract on why we don’t need to fear God...

By Dean Greer This Sunday we at Desert Stream Ministries bring our Living Waters Training to the Theology of the Body community. I...

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

‘To make obvious or clear to the eye of one’s heart’ (Gr. epiphany). True desires of the heart may languish until someone manifests what...

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

By Abbey Foard DSM Executive Director St. Thomas Aquinas’ (1225-1274) hymn, Adoro te Devote, captured me with its melody when I heard it...

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