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I meet a lot of faithful, well-meaning couples frustrated by going “too far”. Catholic dating was not meant to be a series of date nights followed by feelings of guilt and a confession the following day! But sadly, this is the common experience for many. They drive...

A couple of years ago, I attended a men’s retreat facilitated by menALIVE. MenALIVE was founded by Robert Falzon, a Maltese warrior for Jesus who felt called to inspire men to be more active in their faith and in the Church. He started this ministry more than twenty...

A man once shared with me that he would turn to pornography when he felt down and disappointed with himself. But the trigger for his feeling this way was unclear. He could not work out what he was down about or why he was disappointed with himself. I pressed him for...

I love JPII. He changed my life. I cry every time I see a video of him speaking. A few days ago, I knelt down to begin my morning prayer and opened my phone to see a photo message from a friend who had just arrived on a pilgrimage and was praying at JPII's tomb in St....

Over the past few years, the Lord has been gently exposing attitudes and mindsets I possess that are contrary to living a fully Christian life. This has been a bittersweet experience. Bitter because I am proud and don’t like realising I am or have been wrong; sweet...

My wise wife recently recommended a book to me. It is called To Whom Shall We Go by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. It’s one of her favourites. The book is a series of reflections on key events and encounters between St Peter and Jesus in the Gospels. He is a weak man who, at...

Is it arrogant or proud to celebrate when you have gone for a period free from porn or any other sin you might be addicted to? Many of the men and women I used to work with 1-1 to help them grow in purity would unknowingly quote Proverbs 16:18, “Pride comes before the...

On the back of the recent Shroud of Turin Conference we just had in Sydney, discussions and objections to relics certainly picked up, at least in my circles. Protestants often think Catholics are being superstitious for venerating saints' bones or belongings, and...

Why do Catholics create and worship statues and images when God condemned the making of and worship of statues? In Ex 20:4-5 the Bible says, “You shall not make for yourself a graven image, of any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the...

Last week, we distinguished between the worship (Latria) we show to God alone, and the honor and veneration (Dulia) we show to the saints. This is a very important distinction. Catholics do not worship Mary and the saints, but we venerate them as models of holiness...