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Why Is It So Hard to Make Friends?
Fr. Mike is honest about why it’s so hard for us to make friends. A necessity for friendship is time, something that many of us simply don’t have. Mo…
7 years, 3 months ago
Understanding Our Capacity for Evil
Fr. Mike asks if the bad things you think you don’t have the capacity to do are actually just things you don’t have the opportunity to do. A friend o…
7 years, 3 months ago
How Do We Spend Our Time?
How we spend our time is one of the most valuable decisions we make, because time is one thing we can never get back once it’s gone. Maybe God is cal…
7 years, 4 months ago
Catholic Teaching on IVF and Contraception Explained
For many people, the Catholic Church’s teaching on in vitro fertilization and contraception is a hard one, but it is in concordance with the nature o…
7 years, 4 months ago
Fitting In at Church
Perhaps you’ve felt the temptation to be a cookie-cutter Catholic, one who does all the Catholic things that other Catholics are doing because they t…
7 years, 4 months ago
Feeling Sorry for Yourself
What good does feeling sorry for yourself do? Fr. Mike points out a hard truth in saying—while you have the right to grieve when tragic things happen…
7 years, 4 months ago
Old Testament God vs. New Testament God
Many people say God acted much differently in the Old Testament than he did in the New Testament. They say the God of the New Testament is merciful a…
7 years, 5 months ago
How Does Purification Work?
God wants you to be holy, so he is going to set you on a path of purification if you choose to do his will. He is the one who is going to make you ho…
7 years, 5 months ago
Do You Want to Be Well?
Jesus asked the crippled man at the pool of Bethesda, “Do you want to be well?” It seems like an obvious question, but—as Fr. Mike explains—in order …
7 years, 5 months ago
The Role of Hope in Holy Week
There are many great ways to describe hope, but Fr. Mike defines it as “trust in another extended into the future.” He recalls two stories from the G…
7 years, 5 months ago