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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...

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...

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...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Why we pray the Stations of the Cross: They bring us to “that liminal moment where Christ Jesus suffers and dies for us”

From the Diocese of Helena comes this thoughtful reflection by Father Sean Raftis on why...

March 11, 2013

GUEST POST: Cancer patient hopes to be Blessed John Duns Scotus’s miracle. You can help!

The following is a guest point from RUSSELL J. GRIGAITIS, O.F.S., an e-mail pal and...

February 2013

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.

November 2012

November 15, 2012

On the blessedness of those who mourn

From an e-mail I wrote today to a reader who commented that my "Journey Home"...

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 04, 2012

Eugenio Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome turned Catholic convert, on the divine value of tears from the heart

"Tears acquire value when they are not merely expressive of superficial emotion, but arise from...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Remembering the Source of our shelter

After my post the other day about Leonard Cohen, my friend William Doino, Jr., pointed...

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...

October 03, 2012

What is the one piece of turf I must conquer for Jesus?

It's my own soul. So says Father Daniel A. Lord, S.J. (1888-1955), in a passage...