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Weird reunion. Annette’s older ‘gay’-identified brother John, unraveling in San Francisco, needed family. His friends had died or given...

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

Smashing the Serpent #2 Grieved by our divides, made whole only though Divine Mercy, we stand and fight for Her radiance: the Church’s...

One year ago, as I left home for Mass to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for the Body of Christ), I had no idea that my life...

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...

“Erotic love shows most vividly one of the deepest paradoxes of human life: that we are complete and fulfilled not so much in being...

As one subject to self-pity and despair, the Lord has trained me to fight. I now recognize my temptation to a familiar despair. I have a...

‘Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion...’ (1 Tim. 3:15) ​ I just crossed the 65-year-old mark where Medicare agents ask you upbeat...

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...

“What Christ demands of His listeners in the Sermon on the Mount belongs to that space in which man must rediscover the lost fullness of...

‘I am convinced that the starting place of love is the realization that I am needed by another. The person who objectively needs me most...

‘I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already blazing’ (Lk 12:49). I’m built to burn. Gospel flames long to...

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

No-one embodies the living hope of Jesus better than Dean Greer, our Living Waters USA Manager, and wife Chrystal. I met Dean in San...

Ania Bandura Ania is a Polish journalist who interviewed me for a Catholic journal last December before our training in Kraków. We met,...

‘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...

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

By Dean Greer DSM Living Waters USA Manager Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He...

By Morgan Davis Desert Stream Ministries Board Member ‘I realize I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide...

‘…the power of deep feeling seems to serve me, only to deceive me.’ Joni Mitchell Emotions confirm our wonderful, conflictual humanity....