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A Toxic Synergy: Digital Addiction, Gambling, Porn, and...

Synergy: The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined ...

The Fine Line Between “Setting an Example” and Self-Rig...

This Sunday, Jesus tells a story about two men praying in the Temple; one is ser...

Why The Exorcist Keeps Me Catholic

In our walk with Christ, we can mistake “sanitizing” our lives for purity. This ...

The Devil Has No Knees: On Kneeling and Reception of th...

“The devil has no knees,” once declared the Desert Father Abba Apollo. Truly, th...

Reclaiming Masculinity to Save Society

America is lacking in real men. I’m referring to men who are willing to die to t...

A Priest’s Advice on Building a Great Marriage

A woman once told me, “I don’t love my husband anymore.” I asked her, “Are you c...

Pilgrimage and Perspective: Learning to Read the Word, ...

The Spanish countryside blurred past my window as we rode the train from Madrid ...

How Pope St. John Paul II Changed My Life (And Still Does)

I’ve lived long enough to see smoke rise from the Sistine Chapel five times. One...

When God Orders Us to Fight

And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.   The Am...

Persist Always in Faith—Whether Convenient or Not: Twen...

This Sunday, after Jesus tells His disciples a parable about prayer, He asks one...

Treating Church Teaching Like Silly Putty

As a child, I enjoyed playing with Silly Putty. When newspaper ink was petroleum...

Facing Interruptions with the Patience & Peace of Jesus

One child interrupts, “Um, Dad, I spilled that really big cup of milk.” Another ...

St. Teresa of Avila on Union with God

On October 15th the Church celebrates the feast day of one of the greatest of al...

Embryo Adoption Can’t be Used to Bypass Infertility

Recently, one couple shared their story about discerning the morality of embryo ...

A Different Way to Surrender: A Lesson About Living wit...

Twenty years ago, I sat on the edge of a dive boat in Jamaica, oxygen tank strap...

Daily Prayer: A Child’s Defense Against a Challenging W...

We recently had our children and grandchildren over for a dinner celebration. As...

Illness and Unwilled Suffering: The Most Effective Mean...

Last week, I planned to go grocery shopping with my daughter. It was a gray, fal...

Worldly vs. Virtuous Hope: Our Cause for Rejoicing Amid...

We are in the Jubilee Year of Hope, but do we really understand what hope is? Wh...

Put Care of the Soul First

In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus addresses the scholars of the law using hard-hitting ...

The Miracle of the Dancing Sun

On October 13, 1917, as predicted by the three shepherd children in Fatima, a mo...