My second child is a grand introvert. There are so many ways I wish I could be more like her in her introspection and peace. However, one...

I’ve always loved priests. Their sacrifice, ministry and witness of Christ make them the most essential of all workers. However, in the...

Several years ago I read the book Unprotected, by campus psychiatrist Miriam Grossman. Dr. Grossman bravely reveals the magnitude of the...

I recently had the gift of reconnecting with a college roommate I hadn’t seen in many years. She’s amazing. She is a Psychologist who is...

Breaking up is hard to do. Whether it was a mutual decision or a heart-wrencher, the Lord wants to be the object of your rebound. Here...

This past Sunday, I sat in Mass both crowded and slightly irritated as my 5-year-old poked me in the face with her palm for the fifteenth...

The devil has a way of making a sin look like no big deal when you are thinking of committing it, but too big of a deal for God to...

I am often approached by young people who begin our conversation with the phrase, “So I have this friend…” Many people want to reach out...

I once heard a religious sister’s vocation story where she described her discernment process as the feeling that God was holding her...

“To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, Saint Bernard plunged...

If you know anyone who struggles with the church's teaching on confession, invite them to go to a 1st Reconciliation service. It is hard...

As she sat across from us, her pain was almost palpable. A family friend sat with my then-fiancé and I as she lamented about her oldest...

In 1994, there was no choice but to wait. I remember how the world was rocked when a new technology began to shorten the distance between...

I have been quoted by noting that God is never late, and never early. Somehow it seems that I forget this in my own life-- and I forgot...

Rezar por mi futuro marido fue una de las claves de mi decisión para permanecer pura en la adolescencia. Básicamente, años más tarde...

Praying for my future spouse was one of the keys to my decision to stay pure as a teen. Ultimately, years later we discovered that my...

Jackie Francois-Angel’s wildly popular article, “The Devil Wants You to Settle in Your Relationship,” sets forth several gut-check...

“You might say, my kid isn’t looking at porn, and that’s fine. But porn is looking for your child. What are you going to do to protect...

With the rise in popularity of the book turned film, 50 Shades of Grey- the word "submission" has suddenly risen from taboo, to chic for...

I’ll never forget a conversation from a few years ago with a teen who was in anguish about her first middle school dance. It wasn’t...