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November 2020

November 08, 2020

My Latest Heavenly Patron

The month of November begins with the celebration of All Saints. Indeed, before the liturgical...

May 2020

May 14, 2020

Answering the Pope with Hidden Love

The Pope has asked us to devote this day to begging God that the pandemic...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

Don’t Waste This Time.

"I can’t wait for this to be over." In the month since the UK entered...

February 2019

February 10, 2019

Lessons from a Juvenile Prison

I volunteer at a local juvenile detention facility. For several years now, I have run...

February 07, 2019

California Bishops on Healing Mental Illness

Mental illness is incredibly prevalent in the United States, affecting more than one in five...

December 2018

December 16, 2018

Brain Disease or Religious Experience? Mark Salzman’s Lying Awake

What does it mean to feel God’s presence, and how is this related to brain...

November 2018

November 08, 2018

Therapy, truth, and freedom

I've done in a lot of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). For a while, I received...

November 01, 2018

What matters in the end?

Because of modern medicine, we live longer now than any time in human history. But...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

On offering “thoughts and prayers”

In the wake of any tragedy or misfortune, Americans tend to offer vague sentiments of...

September 2018

September 23, 2018

Who are you, who fill my heart with your absence?

Some days, God feels closer than the air we breathe, and he breaks into our...

September 15, 2018

How mirror neurons allow you to suffer with the sorrowful

Why on earth would we celebrate Our Lady of Sorrows? How could the pain she...

September 02, 2018

What clerical abuse does to the developing brain

I'm not prepared to share my words about the atrocities spelled out in the Pennsylvania...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

On materialism, suffering, and the opioid crisis

A few weeks ago, one of my loved ones underwent surgery, and was prescribed an opioid...