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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...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

“Learning that Catholics themselves were grieving over abuse…helped me become more open to entering the Church”

Catholic World Report today features an interview with me by John Burger in which I...

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 20, 2013

St. Dominic Savio, the boy who insisted on growing up

I wrote to you last week to tell you about my "press agent" St. Dominic...

August 09, 2013

Happy feast of The Saint Formerly Known as Edith Stein!

On this day the day the Church honors St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, better...

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...

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...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

Happy Father Dowling feast day!

Today is the "feast day" of one of my personal patron saints, Father Edward Dowling,...

April 03, 2013

The peace that penetrates prison walls

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

March 2013

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 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 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.

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Beauty ever ancient and ever new

Sarah de Nordwall, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting earlier this month, sends...

January 05, 2013

VIDEO: I discuss St. Thérèse of Lisieux on Ireland’s iCatholic

While preparing to speak about My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the...

December 2012

December 03, 2012

A saint who said “d’oh” (and a priest who imitates him)

On this day that the Church celebrates the life of Francis Xavier, I urge you...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

The saints “rose above their violations through a deep conviction of divine love in their hearts”

Melissa Kimiadi of A Journey Through NYC Religions writes beautifully of how the saints, having...

November 25, 2012

Poles apart: Santa Claus and the real St. Nick

In the latest issue of the Weekly Standard, I review a new biography of St. Nicholas and...

November 21, 2012

Practicing the presence of people

Yesterday I returned from a trip to Rome with my father, who had invited me...

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...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

He’s her fan: Leonard Cohen and St. Kateri

A Leonard Cohen fan blog revealed this week that the legendary singer-songwriter's home has images...

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 10, 2012

A saint for the New Evangelization

Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., in delivered a report yesterday at the Synod...

October 02, 2012

Angels in the hospital room

On this day when the Church honors the Guardian Angels, I remember the first time...

October 01, 2012

Dorothy Day on St. Thérèse: “To her God was a consuming flame”

Today the Church celebrates St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Carmelite nun fondly known as the...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Entering into the “memories of God”

I wrote yesterday about how "I have come to believe that people who have suffered...

September 27, 2012

St. Vincent de Paul: Sufferings and trials “make us like Christ our Lord”

Today the Church celebrates St. Vincent de Paul (c. 1580-1660), one of the Church's greatest...