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Even before I knew I was going to be a bishop, a long time ago, I had reflected on that verse from one of St. Paul’s letters, that despite everything and all the difficulties that he faced, even persecution, he mentions that it is the charity of Christ that urges him to go on.

Dr. William Fessler saw the need for dental care in an orphanage that sustained over 600 children. More than seven years later, Fessler, a licensed dentist with a practice in Norwalk, Connecticut, has built a state-of-the-art dental facility to complement a medical clinic at the orphanage.

Do your New Year's resolutions begin with fervor, then flame out by February? Instead, take this opportunity to have your resolutions be more than a checklist of personal goals for the year...

Ultimately, however, this film isn’t about miraculous healings or winning converts. It’s about perseverance in faith in the direst of circumstances, as Paul wrote from his Roman cell: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7).

It took the Church, modeling Christ’s example of charity, hospitality, and compassion, to develop hospitals as true centers for healing that extended to all persons.

This manual provides sound catechesis on sin and excellent advice on what to do about it. A key is to seek growth in the corresponding virtues...

There’s no fictionalized dialogue here — just the powerful scriptural testimony delivered in a potent narrative sure to enrich your faith and understanding of Jesus’ final hours.

He desires to enter our souls by His grace and dwell within as the divine Gardener. He desires to reestablish within us His gifts of order, beauty, and life intended from the beginning – order, to heal that division and discord within us that produces all the division and discord outside of us...

When faith is rejected and acceptance of immoral teachings become normative, the community begins to wither and violence against life and family prospers.

Christian doctors were different from their pagan colleagues. They would take no part in abortion, assisted suicide, cosmetic castration, or infanticide — all of which were common in ancient times.

The inclination toward human respect - to be well-regarded by others – starts as soon as we’re conscious of social order, probably after infancy.

The doctors gave her three options: an abortion, a hysterectomy, or removing the fibroma. Gianna decided to...

Contrary to the myth, faith and science are not necessarily in conflict since ultimately truth cannot contradict truth.

Love does not look at inconvenience, nor does it shrink in the presence of suffering.

“… a career—even a successful one—often resembles a series of endless projects with no final resolution or larger meaning"

The Book of Revelation provides us an antidote to the despair it is so easy to feel: St. Michael, the powerful intercessor against evil.