Dan Burke Dan Burke is the founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation, which offers graduate and personal enrichment studies in spiritual theology to priests, deacons, religious, and laity in 72...

Editor’s note: This article is part 17 of a series, “The Kingdom of Grace.”  Part 16 can be found here. In baptism, God gives us the forgiveness of sins and something of the riches...

I showed a photo of a man dressed in casual clothes to one of our specially gifted people: I said, “What do you see?” She responded, “Who is it?” I...

After prayer and the administration of the sacraments, preaching is the most important work that a priest is called to do. Preaching may be understood as a prophetic task, in which the priest stands...

Editor’s note: This article is part 16 of a series, “The Kingdom of Grace.”  Part 15 can be found here. Baptism not only washes away personal sins, but also forgives original sin. It forgives...

“Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.” So said Vatican II, in words that John Paul II often repeated. Many call this principle the “Law of Gift.” But what...

The greatest trials are reserved for the souls most loved. No servant is greater than his master. The whole life of Christ was a cross. So then, all the life of a true...

By Dan Ehrenkrantz In a 2021 Psychology Today column, Dr. Steven C. Hayes compares emotions to the signals we receive from a car’s...