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Easter, the Cross and Covenant Love: What They Mean for Your Marriage Today

April 29, 2025 | by Mary Beth Bonacci

This reflection from Denver Catholic explores the profound connection between Easter, the Cross, and covenant love in the context of marriage. Drawing from Scripture and Catholic teaching, the article invites couples to see their relationship as a living witness to Christ’s sacrificial love. Whether you're newly married or decades in, you'll find encouragement and spiritual insight for living out your vows with renewed purpose, mercy, and faith. Continue Reading >>

The Quiet Majesty of the Married Life

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 >>

Speech from Philadelphia Gianna Center Gala

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 >>

How is My iPhone Changing Me?

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 >>

The Sight of Hell and the Conqueror King

July 18, 2024 | by Deacon Michael Kristan

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Saintly Guide for SMFPI

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 >>

Untangling Knotty Blessings

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 >>

Why We Return to Augustine

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 >>

Journey to Freedom: Esto Vir

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 >>

Liberating Chastity

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 >>

Escaping Porn's Prison

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 >>

7 Misconceptions about Chastity

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 >>

Virtue Formation and Professionalism in the Workplace

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 >>

The Winsomeness of Virtue

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 >>