Pastoral Care

Daniel Mattson is just like you and me. He is Catholic, baptized at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Lansing. He is a passionate disciple of God, citing Scripture and calling on the Lord through prayer. He is also attracted to men, and for many, this acknowledgment of the latter means he isn’t welcome in the Church. Dan vehemently disagrees...

Author: Spath, Michael

June 1 2013

The most challenging questions I’m asked when speaking about the Church’s teaching on homosexuality come from parents who are committed to the teachings of the Church and have a child who has “come out” and identified as gay or lesbian. This is what I tell them.

Author: Mattson, Daniel

August 6 2014

I was getting high on porn so often that using “straight” porn was no longer enough to reach the high I desired. I, like so many others out there, ventured into other categories—one of which was “gay” pornography (same-sex male-male pornography).

Author: Hudson Byblow

November 13 2014

Teresa Tomeo speaks about engaging the media at the 2015 Truth and Love conference. Download to hear entire talk.

Author: Tomeo, Teresa

August 11 2015

Hudson Byblow is an author, speaker, and consultant whose primary focus is the building of relationships in which people may become open to further discussion. It is within those relationships that he is able to effectively walk with others into a deepening understanding of some of the most difficult topics facing our Church today.

Author: Ministry Website

January 1 2019

As Catholic Christians, we believe that God made us good. We are created in His image and likeness and we will bear that image and likeness into eternity. But while we retain that intrinsic goodness and dignity, not everything in us is good. There was a thing called The Fall.

Author: Schmitz, Fr. Mike

In a time burdened with doubt, mistrust, and suspicion of the Church and those who serve her, Dr. Baars presents profound insight to aid laypersons, priests and religious in order to help usher in a new springtime of life into the Church.

Author: Baars M.D., Conrad W.

2007

David Prosen shares his testimony and offers practical tips for those in ministry at the Steubenville Priests, Deacons and Seminarians retreat in 2016.

Author: Prosen, David

July 7 2016

Catholic Psychologist Timothy Lock discusses how to incorporate faith with modern mental health practices.

Author: EWTN - Life on the Rock

May 1 2015

This instruction contains norms concerning a specific question, made more urgent by the current situation, and that is: whether to admit to the seminary and to holy orders candidates who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies.

Author: Congregation for Catholic Education

November 4 2005

Integrity Restored provides education, training, encouragement, and resources to break free from pornography, heal relationships, and to assist parents in preventing and responding to pornography exposure which is so devastating in the lives of our children.

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If you have been deeply hurt by another, you can choose to forgive rather than hold on to debilitating anger and resentment. In doing so, an amazing transformation begins.

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