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July 2014

July 14, 2014

“Being hopeful doesn’t mean being ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ all the time”

Rachel Balducci, the co-host of Catholic TV's "The Gist" and best-selling author of How Do...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

“This is the night”: A Holy Saturday reflection

Holy Saturday is particularly meaningful for me because it was on Holy Saturday in 2006...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

“Perhaps God’s greatest miracle is not creation, but re-creation”: My talk at the Courage conference

I wrote to you earlier about the beautiful experience I had last month at the...

August 03, 2013

Healing with Courage

Since returning last Sunday from the four-day Courage/EnCourage conference, where I spoke about healing sexual...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Cardinal Wuerl delivers outstanding homily in support of embattled Newman Center chaplain

Tonight I was proud to witness Washington Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl deliver an outstanding defense...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Francis: Our new Pope of Divine Mercy

If Blessed John Paul II was known as the "Pope of Divine Mercy," that title...

March 11, 2013

Why we pray the Stations of the Cross: They bring us to “that liminal moment where Christ Jesus suffers and dies for us”

From the Diocese of Helena comes this thoughtful reflection by Father Sean Raftis on why...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Beauty ever ancient and ever new

Sarah de Nordwall, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting earlier this month, sends...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Our Lord “wants not only to be loved in a Child, but in your child”: Christmas wisdom from Caryll Houselander

I just finished Caryll Houselander's 1947 novel The Dry Wood (beautiful overall, though not without...

December 15, 2012

Caryll Houselander: “Sin tried to batter life out of the innocent son of God … just as it has done to the bodies of innocence ever since”

I am reading the 1947 novel The Dry Wood by English Catholic mystic (and so-called "original...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

The saints “rose above their violations through a deep conviction of divine love in their hearts”

Melissa Kimiadi of A Journey Through NYC Religions writes beautifully of how the saints, having...

November 15, 2012

On the blessedness of those who mourn

From an e-mail I wrote today to a reader who commented that my "Journey Home"...

November 13, 2012

WATCH NOW: My interview on EWTN’s “The Journey Home”

Here is the video of my interview on "The Journey Home" that premiered last night...

November 08, 2012

The Dominican who found in Christ’s wounds an answer to the problem of evil

Today is the day the Dominican Order celebrates its deceased members. As a lay student...

November 01, 2012

Purchased at a price

On this All Saints Day, in honor of the late Barbara Curtis, I am republishing...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Remembering the Source of our shelter

After my post the other day about Leonard Cohen, my friend William Doino, Jr., pointed...

October 22, 2012

A new saint for sufferers of childhood trauma

Pope Benedict's canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha yesterday gave the Church a new patroness for those...

October 09, 2012

John Henry Newman: The Cross of Christ wounds us so as to heal

On this day that the Church honors Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman,...