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(Photo: Adobe Stock) In high school, I remember having conversations with my first real boyfriend. I was accustomed to having long, deep...

(Photo: Lightstock) Theology of the BODY? Isn’t theology about God, who has no body? How can the body have a theology? And what does it...

just finished a truly amazing, year-long class on prayer. In the last session, we took the Myers-Briggs personality test to help us...

Recently, I gave a talk on “Catholic Friendship” at Our Lady of Victory High School here in Denver—a fabulous school, by the way. It was...

I’m at 35,000 feet where, thanks to the miracle of modern satellite technology, I can do something I rarely do: watch daytime TV –...

(Photo: Pexels) A few years ago, I brought a friend to Mass with me. She grew up with no religious faith, but had fond childhood memories...

I’m seeing a meme on social media which quotes Pope Francis as discouraging fasting, recommending people to “eat whatever you want” and...

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty...

Well, it’s January. January is the month, a few years back, when something happened to my family and me (a story for another time) that...

Photo by Erica Marsland Huynh on Unsplash You know how they say the first Christmas after the death of a loved one is the hardest? Well,...

Photo by Nheyob via Wikicommons CC BY-SA 4.0 In 2014, I traveled with a group to Rome for the Canonization of St. John Paul II. One day...

Photo by Josh Olalde on Unsplash I just read that Exeter University has launched a new master’s degree program — in the occult. That’s...

The late Jimmy Buffett. Public domain photo. I loved Jimmy Buffett. Loved his music, loved the easy-going island life he sang about. And...

File Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register Thirty (thirty!) years ago, I experienced probably one of the greatest privileges of my...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Specifically, healing podcasts. Because everybody needs healing....

Photo by Jochen van Wylick via Unsplash Happy Father’s Day! You also may want to send some congratulations my way. For what may be the...

Photo by Bethany Beck via Unsplash Like every other Catholic on the planet, I have been listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s amazing...

(Photo courtesy of Mary Beth Bonacci) I’ve been going through my Dad’s stuff. He lived with me for the past two years of his life, so his...

Photo by Amor Santo via Cathopic Have you ever known someone who was facing a truly huge loss, and struggled with what to say to them? It...

Leo G. Bonacci passed away on January 21, 2023. He was two months shy of his 100th birthday. There is so much I could say about my...