On behalf of the Courage, EnCourage, and Truth and Love community, may you all have a happy and blessed Christmas!
“Coming out” at Christmas: A pastoral response to parents
Amid the many joys of the Christmas season, we also come face to face with many challenges. It’s an incredibly busy time, for a start, which often leaves little time or energy for the kind of spiritual preparation that such …
The Vernacular of Pornography Part II: Our Pornographic Lives
Click here to read “The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn”
This attitude of preferring the simulation of potentiality over the tactile heft of actuality has seeped into the world of things, and also the world of …
The Vernacular of Pornography Part I: The Metaphysics of Porn
Pornography is everywhere. By this, I do not simply mean that we are awash with images of sexualisation of men, women, and now even children, although there is ample evidence of this too. By this I mean that, even …
Coming out for the holidays
It’s a complicated world. A parent in your child’s school leaves her husband for a neighbor woman. The most involved parents in the Rosary Apostolate have a son who now identifies as female. Your cousin, niece, nephew, uncle, son’s …
From the pulpit to the pews: Preaching with clarity and charity about homosexuality
And how are they to hear without a preacher? (Rom 10:14) Saint Paul asks this pressing question about the Gospel in general. We could ask it about particular dimensions of the Gospel, about those hard teachings that are not …
A word of welcome from Cardinal Dolan
One example of the great wisdom of our Catholic faith is the recognition that sometimes things that seem opposed really go together – it is not either/or, but both/and. Bishop Robert Barron, my friend and brother bishop from Los …
