The other day I received a request: would I be willing, at some point in the near future, to celebrate a Mass in the Extraordinary Form? Fir...

May the Lord set the Church free from these new forms of gnosticism and pelagianism that weigh her down and block her progress along the pa...

Christians too can be caught up in networks of verbal violence through the internet and the various forums of digital communication. Even i...

This holiness to which the Lord calls you will grow through small gestures. Here is an example: a woman goes shopping, she meets a neighbor...

Pope Francis exhorts us, with the help of Edith Stein: Let us be spurred on by the signs of holiness that the Lord shows us through the hu...

I took some time to read Gaudete et exsultate . Anything I would say about it generally has already been posted here and there, so there...

A pastoral issue came up during table talk among the friars recently: what to do for a penitent who comes to confession and says he hates Po...

Yesterday Pope Francis spoke to priests, religious, seminarians, and permanent deacons in the cathedral in Bologna. He took a couple of spon...

Today is a big Franciscan feast, that of Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula, when, also for all the faithful, according to a certain ...

This is something that I only discovered recently. Someone had given me a Pope Francis rosary, complete with his coat of arms on the center ...

No series on Amoris laetitia  would be complete without a post on one of the issues that got a lot of attention, from the two sessions of th...

Seminarians should receive a more extensive interdisciplinary, and not merely doctrinal, formation in the areas of engagement and marriage....

Committing oneself exclusively and definitively to another person always involves a risk and a bold gamble. (132) Finding this line in Amo...

Nor would it be good for them to arrive at the wedding without ever having prayed together, one for the other, to seek God’s help in remain...

Amoris laetitia  is a document on the family, but it also has something to say about the celibate vocation in the Church. For example: Wh...

This section can go without comment: Here I feel it urgent to state that, if the family is the sanctuary of life, the place where life is ...

We have to realize that all of us are a complex mixture of light and shadows. The other person is much more than the sum of the little thin...

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal ...

I finished reading Amoris laetitia  yesterday. It's really a beautiful document, and very tender. True to genre, it's an exhortation...

This post isn't really about Amoris laetitia , since I haven't read it yet. Yes, I've looked over it, and yes, of course, I'...