Through the Church—the sacrament of God’s infinite love—her Scriptures, her Tradition, her prayers, and her liturgies, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and transformative grace. But what happens when the men and women tasked with...
I have been following the situation closely at the St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero, New Mexico. Fortunately, the community announced on July 3 the return of their artwork — including the large icon of Apache Christ that hung for...
Through the Church—the sacrament of God’s infinite love—her Scriptures, her Tradition, her prayers, and her liturgies, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and transformative grace. But what happens when the men and women tasked with...
Over the course of the podcast we’ve had several conversations about conscience and the moral law as well as episodes about abuse in the Church. However, in my reading of Pope Francis’s teaching, as well as in my research about...
Editor’s note: This is a response to the angry backlash by online traditionalists and other critics of Trad Recovery, written by member (and former traditionalist) Andy M. It was originally posted to the Trad Recovery blog, and is reproduced here...
A few weeks ago, Liz Hansen invited my family over to her family’s house for dinner. As all of our kids ran around, the adults were talking about some of the difficulties of being Catholic right now in the...
Trigger/Content warning: discussion of sexual and spiritual abuse, sexual content Because of the strength of its communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live together, L’Arche has long enjoyed a first-rate international reputation. Thus, after the death of founder...
Rachel Amiri and I have been talking about NFP and NFP culture for several years now. Before we started recording, she reminded me that we first met when we were arguing with each other in NFP groups on Facebook (not...
I recently had the privilege of talking with TL Putnam over on his podcast, Outside the Walls, about my article, The Place Where You Stand is Holy Ground: Recognizing and Preventing Spiritual Abuse in the Catholic Church. We first talked...
On Friday of last week, Irish blogger Pat Buckley reported that four men have come forward with allegations including boundary violations, spiritual abuse, and sexual harassment against Dom Mark Kirby of Silverstream Priory, the author and alleged visionary behind the popular devotional...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in “Combat For Contemplative Life,” a series about the responses — inside and outside the cloister — to Pope Francis’s reforms of the contemplative life for women in various communities. Part one, by...
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