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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...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock and what it means to be a “martyr of chastity”

This coming Saturday, June 15, is the feast day of Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock, whose story...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

Dominicans’ Angelic Warfare Confraternity director urges members to read My Peace, calling it “a powerful aid for healing and renewal”

As a member of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, the Dominican Friars' apostolate for Catholic men...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

St. Margaret of Cortona: All things are possible to Love

Today is the feast of the 13th-century holy woman St. Margaret of Cortona, whose journey...

February 17, 2013

GUEST POST: “Why I Don’t Buy It,” by Kevin Tierney

The following piece by Kevin Tierney is reprinted with permission from his blog Common Sense...

February 07, 2013

Memo to Matt McGuiness and Catholic News Agency: Confession is not a waste of time

Catholic News Agency columnist Matt McGuiness yesterday published part two in his series "A Second...

February 03, 2013

In his own image: Christopher West reshapes Ratzinger’s critique of iconoclasm

The following is an article I wrote that was published in the April 2012 issue...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Message to Matt McGuiness and Catholic News Agency: Sexual victimization is no laughing matter

I was viscerally distressed reading "A Second Look at Porn" by Matt McGuiness, a new...

November 2012

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 06, 2012

The canary in the coal mine

"[If] you watch any TV at all, spend any time on the Internet, or just...

November 05, 2012

Catholic man with homosexual inclination tells why “gay identity” philosophy is un-Christian

"The whole [Catholic] teaching about sexuality is rooted in the complementarity of the two sexes....

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Barron, why so barren? Questions on a priest’s sterile definition of marital love

I just read Father Robert Barron's column "Saying No to Nietzche" and have a few...

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 16, 2012

“I was afraid of her purity”: Discovering Mary’s purifying love

Today is traditionally the Feast of the Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary...

October 14, 2012

Defining deviancy down: Andy Warhol refashioned as an “intentionally celibate” Catholic

My Patheos colleague Marc Barnes asserts on his Bad Catholic blog that Andy Warhol...