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Male and female gender symbols on a black background with space for text (Photo: Adobe Stock) When I was speaking full-time to teenagers,...

(Photo: Pixabay) Is masculinity “toxic”? The American Psychological Society apparently thinks so. They issued a long report about it...

(Photo courtesy of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw) There is a controversy brewing in the Archdiocese of Detroit over a funeral homily....

As I have confessed to you many times before, I do not consider myself a good pray-er. My prayer is often dry. Dry as in, “is anybody...

(Photo: Pixabay) I just returned from the Catholic Leadership Conference — or, as I like to call it, “the best three days of the year.”...

(Photo: Pixabay) I wasn’t sure what name you are going by these days. “Angry,” “Disgusted,” “Demoralized,” “Fed Up,” “Devastated.”  I...

I’m a cancer survivor, although mine was more of a “skirmish” than a battle. It was brief and relatively easily treated. But one long...

(Photo: Pixabay) Two high profile suicides in four days.  Awful. In the wake of the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, my...

(Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Happy Humanae Vitae 50th Anniversary! I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a...

(Photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr) So the Pope has a friend — a rather colorful friend — with whom he likes to...

(Photo: Unsplash) I belong to a prayer group on Facebook. People post their intentions, and the other members pray. It’s a great use of...

(Photo: Pexels) When I was a kid, my favorite television show was The Partridge Family . Mostly because I was completely enamored of the...

Last year, I spent a raucous New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, celebrating with some of my oldest and dearest friends against the backdrop...

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 12: Demonstrators participate in the #MeToo Su rvivors' March in response to several high-profile sexual...

By the time you read this, All Saints Day will have come and gone. But, just to extend the feast a few more days, I want to share the...

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 2: Mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard for the victims of...

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff design) If your daughter has a subscription to Teen Vogue , I would strongly urge you to cancel it....

“Progress usually tends to be measured according to the criteria of science and technology. Nor from this point of view has the...

Image courtesy of Netflix I watched 13 Reasons Why , so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. I wanted to write about the show, but I wanted...

OK, call me crazy. But I the only one who remembers, in my formative years, hearing repeatedly from the feminists that feminism was about...