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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...

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

‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...

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

‘The concrete challenge of love can’t be separated from Him; it is always in Him.’ Karol Wojtyla Along with several others, John Wimber...

By Marco Casanova I’m made for communion. Love calls me into relationship. Learning to reveal hard emotions to Ania has become my...

‘The season of singing has come’ (Song of Songs 2:12). ‘He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart’ (Is....

‘I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body…Fear Him who…has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear...

One of our dearest friends in all of Europe is Vilma Karveliene who heads up Living Waters in Lithuania. She champions healing for all...

By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director ‘The way to holiness is the path of My friendship. There are many who complicate the way of...

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

Original entry date: May 9, 2016 First, thank you for your commitment to your friend. Sometimes devout, energized persons like you can...

Jesus unflinchingly washes the feet of His friends. He cleans them up to send them out. Jesus stoops to wash my filthy feet. He falls to...

Venturing to wholeness takes a village. We surrender to Jesus but stumble in route until we find walking partners who help us fix on...

I for one am grateful for Christ-centered therapists. Who else can care for us like a pastor, attune to us like a parent, and help...

“O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in you!” – Chaplet of Divine Mercy A...

‘I am making everything new. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life’ (Rev. 21: 5,...

I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...

‘Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.’ -Oswald Chambers How dependent am I on Jesus? Fickle, at best. Yes, I...

‘Before you call, I will answer you’ (Is. 65:24). Do we even know what we need? Just prior to Lent, I confessed symptoms of...