Malcolm Muggeridge’s reception into the Catholic Church in 1982 made loud headlines in the mass media. He was one of Britain’s most famous journalists, a best-selling author, consummate satirist, and producer of some of the best television programs of the twentieth ...
In God’s pedagogy, love always stands supreme. Sexual pleasure and the affective domain (our emotional states) need to be ordered to the law of love—that is, to the total, disinterested gift of the self to the other—and this forever. Willfully ...
The human heart is a battleground. It is the site of a perennial struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, life and death. On the one hand, we desire eternal happiness; on the other, we fall prey to temptations that present sin in such ...
“I think Christ is whispering to each of you: ‘Give me your heart! (…) I will purify it, strengthen it, and direct it to those who have need of it.’” (Saint John Paul II) “So love, in essence, means giving yourself ...
I felt as if I were two persons: one striving for God, wishing to be close of Him, and the other striving for easy, sinful attachments I have been serving on the altar for eight years, but I fell into the mire of masturbation ...