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August 2014

August 19, 2014

Was Your Prayer a Failure?

This was one of the questions a journalist asked Pope Francis on the plane ride...

August 12, 2014

Robin Williams and Divine Mercy

From a 2007 interview, you get the sense he may have had a sense of...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Praying on the Hill

Dominican Father Andrew Hofer opened the House one day this week (while we were still...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

Why Does God Allow an Eight-Year-Old Boy to be Killed Waiting for His Dad at the Finish Line?

From a summary of a conversation on The Good Catholic Life, a Boston-area radio program...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Best of B16: Knowing the Meaning of Life

Also from May 2011: The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail...

February 20, 2013

Best of B16: On the ‘Good Fight of Faith’

From May 2011: Our entire lives are like this long night of struggle and prayer,...

February 18, 2013

Coffee Talk with God

I was going to send some friends the beautiful text on serving the poor in...

February 17, 2013

Pray for the Church!

One of my favorite responses to the pope’s news Monday came from the Knights of...

February 10, 2013

The Object of My Affection, 2013 Remake

This might be on your mind already because Valentine’s Day is this week, but here's...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Set Out to Pray. He Will Take It from There.

If you find yourself restless and distracted, advice from a Carmelite, Sr. Ruth Burrows, via...

January 19, 2013

Have You Prayed Today?

Specifically the first part of a nine day novena marking the 40th anniversary of Roe...

November 2012

November 05, 2012

Election Day Is a Day for Prayer

Whatever happens on Election Day, on any Election Day, “we do not throw up our...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Where There’s a Wills, There’s a Way

There are people praying for America’s future -- and it is not too late to...

October 17, 2012

Have You Prayed for Life and Liberty?

There has been a Fortnight for Freedom, a Novena, and now another Rosary novena for...

September 2012

September 03, 2012

Prayer Matters

My dear friend Karen Goodwin writes a beautiful reflection on her recent pilgrimage to Lourdes....

August 2012

August 19, 2012

Quick Sunday Word from a Woman in Love

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned...

August 17, 2012

A Prayer for Today

Via the Liturgy of the Hours: Father, he who knew no sin was made sin...

August 09, 2012

Let Us Pray

That's the witness of the life of St. Dominic, whose feast Catholics celebrated yesterday. Reflecting...

August 09, 2012

Feeling Weak?

In her book, My Peace I Give You, Dawn Eden writes about questions she's encountered...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

Yo, Bro!

This would be appropriate and nourishing and challenging any day, but at a time when...

April 2012

April 06, 2012

Just One Look

When we gaze on the Blessed Sacrament, our Lord gives us this same look he...

April 04, 2012

Subtle Witness

Getting on the Capitol South Metro stop in D.C. Tuesday night, I stood behind a...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

Holy, Holy, Holy

It was a ten-hour flight from Newark to Tel Aviv and the highlight -- besides...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Praying the ‘Our Father’

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus.

February 25, 2012

Oremus

Pray this Lent.

February 20, 2012

Prayer

“is what holds the life together.”