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Christian Nation?    ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17)  I’m grateful to be an alien in America. On one hand, I am a...

Author’s Note: Our words must line up with how things are, especially in regard to sexual identity. Language empowers or devalues truth....

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

Ania and I bonded over our mutual affection for the whole Body of Christ, in our case, the Catholic Church. Why? The Church was healing...

Written by John Finnis, Robert P. George, ​Peter Ryan, S.J. On December 18, the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF)...

‘Before the end, the world will be set quaking. Only when man does not cling to false security will his eyes be capable of seeing the...

Courage and Common Sense ‘These men began to argue with Stephen, but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he...

Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...

How Did We Get Here? ‘The distortion of the beautiful is the self-irony of lost truth.’ - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Sociologists marvel...

How the Church Forms Conscience ‘However much Christianity may have failed during its history (and it has failed again and again...

Part 2: The MacGuffin of Conversion Therapy This is the second blog of our three-part series. If you haven’t already, please read part 1...

Why does Christmas Day fold into the stoning of Stephen? Why does your calendar, O Church, disturb our reverie with bloodshed? Why must...

‘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...

‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...

‘How, Wojtyla asks, can men and women become responsible lovers, so that our sexual love embodies a genuine freedom?... I cannot achieve...

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

‘Advent is the time of the promise, not the fulfillment.’ Fr. Alfred Delp Adele fever is back. Her new album ‘30’ is selling faster than...

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...

By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He...

By Mike Nobrega Desert Stream Ministries Board Member I came to Desert Stream for help almost 30-years-ago: I was unable to break the...