Our Lord “wants not only to be loved in a Child, but in your child”:...
I just finished Caryll Houselander’s 1947 novel The Dry Wood (beautiful overall, though not without flaws) and found a stunning passage on the mystery of the suffering of innocents, an apt follow-up to...
View ArticleA year’s worth of gratitude
As the New Year begins, I am pausing to give thanks to God, and I also want to thank you everyone who has prayed for me this past year. In January 2012 I had the overwhelming joy of teaching on an...
View ArticleVIDEO: 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 Help of the Saints in the London area on January 7 and 8 (see my tour schedule on The Dawn Patrol), I had the...
View ArticleThe psychodramas and the traumas gone, the songs are left unsung: Tandyn...
Yesterday I was humbled to attend the funeral of a remarkable man I never met in person, but without whose music the course of my life would have been much different: Tandyn Almer, the songwriter best...
View ArticleMessage to Matt McGuiness and Catholic News Agency: Sexual victimization is...
I was viscerally distressed reading “A Second Look at Porn” by Matt McGuiness, a new columnist for Catholic News Agency. The column begins with a laugh line from a Hollywood movie that makes light of a...
View ArticleBeauty ever ancient and ever new
Sarah de Nordwall, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting earlier this month, sends this gorgeous versification of St. Augustine’s commentary on Psalm 44:3, which she in turn received from an...
View Article40 Days for … Love!
A Catholic college student in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has an idea to revitalize Christians’ witness to the truth and meaning of human sexuality: 40 Days for Love! I learned about 40 Days for Love via...
View ArticleThrill of the chased: Montana priest makes front page of WSJ for 23-year game...
My friend Father Sean Raftis, pastor of a church in a small town of Montana, is big news today in New York City and beyond, as the Wall Street Journal‘s front page features what may well be the world’s...
View Article“Except for these chains”: A story of grace behind prison walls
I write about spiritual healing for adults who have suffered childhood sexual abuse, so it may seem strange that lately I have found myself praying for Father Gordon J. MacRae (left), a Catholic priest...
View ArticleA free podcast of the talk I gave today at Notre Dame on healing sexual...
… awaits you on my personal blog, The Dawn Patrol.
View ArticleAlmer mattered: Washington Post profiles the late “Along Comes Mary” songwriter
Kudos to the Washington Post‘s Matt Schudel for writing a thoughtful obituary of the enigmatic “Along Comes Mary” songwriter Tandyn Almer, whom I profiled last month on this blog.
View ArticleGUEST POST: “Why I Don’t Buy It,” by Kevin Tierney
The following piece by Kevin Tierney is reprinted with permission from his blog Common Sense Catholicism: With far less fanfare than before, Matt McGuiness concludes his “Second Look at Porn” series...
View ArticleA year’s worth of gratitude
As the New Year begins, I am pausing to give thanks to God, and I also want to thank you everyone who has prayed for me this past year. In January 2012 I had the overwhelming joy of teaching on an...
View ArticleLiberal-minded Columbia freshman attends pro-family conference, warned by...
… and instead finds “thoughtful and incisive” speakers. Via the Columbia Spectator: Earlier in the week, I had received an invitation to take part in a pro-LGBT rights rally on campus and had...
View ArticleSt. Margaret of Cortona: All things are possible to Love
Today is the feast of the 13th-century holy woman St. Margaret of Cortona, whose journey to sanctity included suffering abuse by her stepmother and rejection by her father; loving a man who fathered...
View ArticleAUDIO: Outstanding homily on spiritual healing and forgiveness
Audio Sancto, which offers free podcasts of Catholic sermons, currently features a beautiful homily given last Sunday on healing from childhood abuse. The priest (who is not named, as Audio Sancto...
View ArticleJames O’Keefe of the misleadingly named Project Veritas agrees to pay $100K...
… to a man whose last name is Latin for “truth.” G.K. Chesterton, whom O’Keefe claims to admire, couldn’t have written an apter twist to the story of the young Alinskyite activist who boasted he was...
View ArticleIneffable
I am looking forward to attending Mass today at a local parish that celebrates in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and, particularly, to taking in the silence during the Canon. Silence is the...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Cancer patient hopes to be Blessed John Duns Scotus’s miracle....
The following is a guest point from RUSSELL J. GRIGAITIS, O.F.S., an e-mail pal and Third Order Franciscan who was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: I would like to ask you to join me...
View ArticleLooking for the latest news on my speaking dates and other My Peace-related...
Hie thee to The Dawn Patrol, my blog for news on Life in Eden. Speaking dates are here; news on my studies, apostolate, and vocation are here. You can also follow me on Twitter.
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