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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...

July 09, 2014

I like to be in America!

Cross-posted from my "personal stuff" blog, The Dawn Patrol: The online home of America magazine...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

Editor of America’s leading pastoral magazine endorses My Peace I Give You

Cross-posted from The Dawn Patrol: Fr. David Meconi, S.J., editor of Homiletic & Pastoral Review—the...

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...

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 18, 2013

Do you or someone you know need to forgive? Then you need to watch this program

UPDATE, 8/3/13: As of this writing, most of the links to "Women of Grace" episodes...

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...

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,...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Francis: Our new Pope of Divine Mercy

If Blessed John Paul II was known as the "Pope of Divine Mercy," that title...

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...

January 2013

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...

January 01, 2013

A year’s worth of gratitude

As the New Year begins, I am pausing to give thanks to God, and I...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

Our Lord “wants not only to be loved in a Child, but in your child”: Christmas wisdom from Caryll Houselander

I just finished Caryll Houselander's 1947 novel The Dry Wood (beautiful overall, though not without...

December 15, 2012

Caryll Houselander: “Sin tried to batter life out of the innocent son of God … just as it has done to the bodies of innocence ever since”

I am reading the 1947 novel The Dry Wood by English Catholic mystic (and so-called "original...

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 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 12, 2012

TONIGHT: Watch me on EWTN’s “Journey Home”

Tonight's the night that my interview for "The Journey Home" airs on EWTN, in...

November 08, 2012

The Dominican who found in Christ’s wounds an answer to the problem of evil

Today is the day the Dominican Order celebrates its deceased members. As a lay student...

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 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...

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 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 24, 2012

“I no longer felt alone”: Angela Sealana reviews My Peace I Give You

Catholic new-media expert Angela Sealana, who blogs at Inspired Angela, confesses today that she used...

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 09, 2012

John Henry Newman: The Cross of Christ wounds us so as to heal

On this day that the Church honors Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman,...