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What St. Joseph Taught Me About Fear: 3 Years with the ...

God brought me to Christ and to His Church by way of fear. Twenty-five years ago...

The Right Tools Make All the Difference, Part 2

As I mentioned in the first installment of this series, my life includes a litan...

The Shema and the Sign of the Cross

The Trinity is the greatest mystery ever revealed to humanity. Even the great St...

Did I Meet My Son’s Guardian Angel?

“Be devout to the Guardian Angels of your friends; they render you in many insta...

What It Means To Be Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves

There is something deeply unsettling in Christ’s instruction to His disciples in...

7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Stigmata of St. Francis

St. Francis of Assisi was the first saint known to receive the sacred stigmata, ...

St. Bernadette’s Relics Are Coming to the U.S.

Fourteen-year-old Marie Bernarde “Bernadette” Soubirous had never been considere...

Food, Water, and the Dignity of the Dying: What Catholi...

“What does it mean to feed someone?” Every human being understands, almost insti...

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross on the Power of Hidde...

In the great mystery of God’s plan, it is hidden souls who He uses to unleash su...

A Forgiving Heart Does Not Keep Score: 24th Sunday in O...

This Sunday, Peter asks Jesus how many times he has to forgive a brother who sin...

Would the Resurrection Survive Cross-Examination?

The question posed starts with the standard of proof. A civil verdict requires o...

Accepting God’s Labor Day Gift

In 1894, Labor Day was declared a national holiday. Most worked a six-day work w...

The Hidden Life of Jesus Is the Overlooked Life

I’ll never forget when I once told a relative about a group of cloistered nuns—t...

The Birth of Mary: Reflecting on the Feast Day

Most years, on Mary’s birthday, I’m recuperating from a Labor Day weekend involv...

Writing, Reading, and the Holy Spirit: Icons as Divine ...

In the collection of Eastern monastic writings called the Philokalia, the goal o...

The Devil Never Takes a Day Off: On Speaking Well and H...

Q&A WITH MYSTIC ALICJA LENCZEWSKA, PART 5 Continuing the theme of the fallen ang...

When Priests Leave: Finding a Balance Between Mercy and...

I have watched multiple priests leave the priesthood over the years, including t...

Do We Have Ears to Hear Our Own Correction? 23rd Sunday...

Previously in this Gospel, Jesus has spoken about authority in His Church.  This...

Finding Grace in Parental Failures

Some time ago, I ran into an old friend, and as we were catching up with each ot...

Answering the Universal Call to Holiness with a Rule of...

Over the past sixty years the documents of Vatican II, and indeed the council it...