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I called upon the Lord and he answered my prayer with one unexpected phone call, and one dear psalm.
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I called upon the Lord and he answered my prayer with one unexpected phone call, and one dear psalm.

I believed my survival as a female meant living in a defensive posture against real or imagined male domination, including God’s.

Is purgatory a faraway place? Or does it begin here and now?

This sorrow, he explains, is rooted in modern man’s losing sight of his “own real greatness.”

I am convinced the saint was present in my husband's hospital room, interceding for him.

"Stinking thinking" keeps us distracted, panicked and unaware of God's presence within.

St. Paul speaks of a "holy hardening," and this is what we need to be able to "boast of our afflictions."

With the escalating threats of violence, let us pray this on behalf of all humanity.

In her 11th book, the relentlessly honest and passionate writer talks about praying as if one's life depends upon it.

To paraphrase John Paul II, are we living together as we ought?

"Something akin to a miracle has occurred," writes Judy Klein, with great gratitude and joy.

My wounded notion of femininity was re-ordered, and blocks and distortions within my mind and heart began to fall away.

It's true, even if it doesn't look, smell, or feel pretty ...

The Catholic teaching on suffering must be unapologetically offered to a hurting world today.

Playing off of theme of 'The Benedict Option,' the author suggests an even more fundamental solution for post-Christian civilization.

In a world that offers coping mechanisms, Jesus Christ offers true and authentic healing.

Happy memories of a childhood in New Orleans combine with more painful recollections as we approach Lent.

I found peace when I turned everything and everyone over to the will of God.

An in-flight conversation plants a seed

The lesson we keep having to learn: sometimes all it takes is seeing someone else, and offering simple respect