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Friendship requires intimacy. By ‘intimacy’, I mean a kind of closeness, a mutual and deep knowledge of the other with whom we are friends. Aristotle agrees wh...

Some years back, I was visiting religious orders. I wanted to serve God, and pursue sanctity, by living in community and doing intellectual work. Joining the Do...

"Live in the culture, be a part of the culture, but don't be of the world."  "Live in the mainstream in order to reshape the mainstream."  "Be the invisible...

You go to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre when you want the real thing. What you can't find in Milwaukee you will get in Jerusalem. This is the place where t...

A while back I visited a Catholic high school.  In one class, apologetics, the teacher asked me to go to the front of room and defend Catholicism from the stude...

The Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1436. Does it make you squirm? Here is the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- in a state of undress. Motherhood is well an...

Can you receive communion if you are divorced and remarried? According to Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Cupich, the Argentinian Conference of Bishops...

Recognizing that our Church was dying where she once thrived, Saint Pope John Paul II, in his 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, first introduced the concept o...