November 16, 2024 | by Tom Hoopes
We are returning mankind, starting with ourselves and our families, to our first relationship with God — he returns us to innocence in the sacrament of confession, then goes about establishing his will “on earth as it is in heaven” through the sacrament of marriage. Continue Reading >>
November 5, 2024 | by Dr. Anne Nolte, MD
Most of the time, His will is simply that we remain faithful to our daily duties, doing the next “right thing” with love, as the Saints teach us. And we need to be ready, if in the silence, the Lord asks something bigger of us than He asked on any prior day. Continue Reading >>
October 29, 2024 | by Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Today our digital devices—especially portable devices, and their most popular applications, social media, combining communication with entertainment—are changing us. Increasingly we are aware that this is not accidental—that in many ways the devices, and the applications they run, are designed to change us, engineered specifically to capture and modify our sense of self, how we think, what we do. Continue Reading >>
July 18, 2024 | by Deacon Michael Kristan
June 11, 2024 | by Dr. Jason M. Morgan
The theology of the body is among the most beautiful and transformative of all Christian investigations into the nature of God’s creation. It is also among the most needful... Continue Reading >>
April 25, 2024 | by Andrew Comiskey
’23 ended with Fiducia Supplicans (FS), a papal ‘bang’ that at once wounded and awakened me. Fallout from the doc nearly canceled Christmas. But wise men reflected holy light and still lead us... Continue Reading >>
February 14, 2024 | by Michael Gonzalez
Christians generally turn to Augustine in troubled times, intuiting that he probably offers prophetic guidance for us somewhere in his voluminous corpus. But it isn’t just Christians who find something to connect with in the Confessions... Continue Reading >>
December 23, 2023 | by Bob Appleby
Most if not all of us have been harmed by the destructive power of pornography. I, like many people, have struggled for much of my life to rid myself of it. As a young man... Continue Reading >>
September 19, 2023 | by Andrew Comiskey
Though often misunderstood as ‘Catholic abstinence’, chastity encompasses a dimensional understanding of what it means to be human in our passions. Chastity is about ordering these passions so that the powers of life and love engender creativity rather than squander it. That involves a dozen little streams that contribute to a river teeming with life yet necessarily cleansed, stirred, and directed for the sake of life... Continue Reading >>
September 19, 2023 | by Josh Haskell
I first watched porn when I was 15 years old. As a young teen, I thought “addiction” was a word reserved for drug users and alcoholics. I didn’t know that a collared-shirt Catholic school kid could be so controlled by the things he saw on his cracked iPhone 6 screen... Continue Reading >>
September 16, 2023 | by Mathilde De Robien
Alex Deschênes discovered St. John Paul II’s theology of the body when he was 20 years old, and it revolutionized his life. In turn, has made the late holy pontiff’s reflections his own, and shares his vision of the body and sexuality in an accessible language. Continue Reading >>
September 13, 2023 | by Dr. Stephen J. Loughlin
The nature of virtue, its acquisition, and the role it plays in the realization of our vocations are matters poorly understood today. For many people, virtue commonly evokes the idea that it limits human freedom, creativity, and spontaneity, that virtue is a chain that restricts, a burden that oppresses, a static conformity detrimental to human happiness. And yet... Continue Reading >>
May 18, 2023 | by Justin M. Pellentier
Every human being is created in the image and likeness of God. However, sexual sin over-emphasizes our animal nature, weakens our participation in God’s divine nature, and threatens the dignity of both the one who lusts and the one who is lusted upon... Continue Reading >>