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5 Places I’m Looking Forward to Visiting on Our 2020 Holy Land Pilgrimage
An overview of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. Christopher West will join Father Thomas Loya, Father Justin Brady and Jason Clark to lead an 11-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land — Feb. 15-25, 2020 (with an optional extension to Jordan and Amman Feb. 25-27). Below...
What a Priest Is Supposed to Be
[NOTE: For National Vocations Awareness Week (Nov. 3-9, 2019), the following is excerpted from a homily by Father Patrick R. Schultz delivered Aug. 19, 2018. It is transcribed and printed with his permission. Father Schultz is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland and...
What Halloween Is and How It Can Point You to Heaven
This Halloween, like every other, signs of death will come out to haunt us. Fear not.
Five Favorite Quotes from Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”)
John Paul II helped me understand that the moral life is not just about “following rules” but about fulfilling the very meaning of life.
Announcing a New Master of Arts Degree with a Focus in the Theology of the Body
I want to make people aware of an exciting partnership that is developing between the Theology of the Body Institute and www.Pontifex.University. Pontifex University has created a unique Masters program, a Masters in Sacred Arts, which is a Catholic inculturation for anyone who is interested in contributing to the evangelization of the culture. It can be taken 100 percent online.
Taking Theology of the Body to the Streets
Several years ago, I had a very powerful dream of taking a homeless person from the streets of Denver to Rome.
How Contraception Took Me Out of the Church … and Brought Me Back
I’d like to share a bit of my own journey around the issue of contraception. I have wrestled with God over this one (guess who won).
It Is Okay to Grieve
Will we learn to trust again? Will we learn to grow again? Will we come out stronger on the other side? It is okay to grieve.
The Haunting of Our Hearts
“We shall be haunted by a nostalgia for divine things, by a homesickness for God which is not eased in this world even by the presence of God.”
Finding Freedom Through Natural Family Planning
It was a moment of truth — either I really trusted in God or I didn’t. There was no middle-ground. I had to choose.
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