Feasts
Fr. Joseph Gill

The Beloved Disciple

Happy feast day of St. John! This is the patronal feast of this beautiful Basilica, which is why we are celebrating his feast rather than

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Life
Guest Writer

Making Sense of Suffering

By guest writer Sarah Coffey. Why do we suffer? I’ve wrestled with this question and with God for a long, long time. It’s still a

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Prayer
Kat Larson

Militia of the Immaculate

In 1917, Saint Maximilian Kolbe founded a worldwide Catholic evangelization movement known as the Militia of the Immaculate. Essentially, this was an “army” devoted to

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Health & Fitness
Kat Larson

What Do You Wish For?

I have been falling from grace recently. My life has not been going the way I had anticipated. To make matters worse, I have given

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Religion
Kat Larson

Testimony

The current state of this world has caused me to withdraw from it in many ways. The depression I struggled with off and on my

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Columnists
Kat Larson

I Am Sorry, Mom

This weekend was a time of great significance. The Church celebrated the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday (“Rejoice” Sunday), but it was personally significant

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Columnists
Noel Ethan Tan

Thor & Mothers

Avengers: Endgame — spoiler alert. This man watched his own mother murdered, watched his own brother being choked to death, watched his best friend get

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Life
Kat Larson

Never Say Never

My life is becoming a perfect example of the classic expression “never say never.” This morning I dyed my hair BLUE!!! When I was younger

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Columnists
Kat Larson

I Can’t

I have fallen into a very negative mood lately and it has separated me from God. It is amazing how quickly and how easily Satan

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Columnists
Guest Writer

Lord of the Absurd

I’ve been struggling with bouts of my depression “coming back” to haunt me and take over my life. I don’t think we ever fully recover

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Columnists
Cristina Montes

St. John Paul II on Depression

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Since this website features the Catholic perspective on young adult concerns, and since depression is a growing mental health

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Books
Abigail C. Reimel

Someone, Please, Like Me…

“Stockholm syndrome, individuals’ desperate attempts to become like their captors.  On a lesser scale it was why good German citizens followed Hitler, Ryan said.  Or

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Spirituality
Mariella Hunt

Dark Nights

What is the Dark Night of the Soul to me? It’s depression–but a different kind of depression. Why should the above thoughts in the animation be going through my head?

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