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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...

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...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

UPDATED WITH AUDIO: Welcome, “Morning Air” listeners!

UPDATE: My "Morning Air" interview is now online! Listen here. I'm very thankful to Sean...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

UPDATED: Pray for persecuted Newman Center priest and for those who persecute him

Father Greg Shaffer is one of my parish priests. I live a stone's throw from...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

AUDIO: Outstanding homily on spiritual healing and forgiveness

Audio Sancto, which offers free podcasts of Catholic sermons, currently features a beautiful homily given...

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 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...

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....

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 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...