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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...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Reflecting on the still, small voice that sustains us

There is a scene in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia novel The Magician's Nephew in...

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...

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...

April 2013

April 04, 2013

Saved by the cowbell: Mark Volman of Sixties rockers the Turtles is now a Christian professor

Backstage at the Bottom Line, NYC, with Howard "Eddie" Kaylan (left) and Mark "Flo" Volman,...

April 03, 2013

The peace that penetrates prison walls

Father George David Byers' Holy Souls Hermitage today features a deeply moving account of conversion...

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 09, 2013

A free podcast of the talk I gave today at Notre Dame on healing sexual wounds with the help of the saints …

... awaits you on my personal blog, The Dawn Patrol.

February 05, 2013

“Except for these chains”: A story of grace behind prison walls

I write about spiritual healing for adults who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, so it...

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 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 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 07, 2012

Father Ed on the via negativa

One of my favorite quotations from one of my favorite apostles of spiritual healing: "There...

October 05, 2012

UPDATED: Sacred Heart speaks to atheist’s heart

It's a familiar tale in atheist circles: a child of fundamentalist Christian parents rebels against...