On this Feast of St. Thèrése of Lisieux, I thought I'd share my close encounter with this beloved saint. I was never a big fan of St. Thèrése. I didn't have anything against her; I just didn't connect with the Little Flower in a special way. That all ...
I opened my Twitter feed yesterday to find this message posted by The Clearing, a spiritual wellness website:
"Read why @MaryDTP is one of our top 25 blogs ...
This Life Lines column was originally intended to be my last. It was 15 years ago this month that I wrote my first column for Catholic New York, and this ...
Usually I run the same annual post in this space on August 6, the day I lost my second child to miscarriage. But this year feels a little bit different. As ...
I'll admit it: It was love at first sight. I have got a crazy pope crush - in an agape sort of way. He had me at "Hola." Actually, he had me at "Francis." ...
I have to run out and sell some Girl Scout cookies this morning, so I can't write the pope post I'd like to write just yet. I'll be back later or tomorrow ...
So yesterday I wrote a deeply personal post about my recent spiritual struggles and my feelings of hope upon seeing Pope Francis step onto the balcony. I ...
The weeks between Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI resigning and Pope Francis stepping out onto that balcony happened to coincide with particularly dark spiritual ...
When I visited Manhattan a few weeks ago, I emerged from Penn Station, stepped out onto the street, took a big, deep breath of bus fumes mixed with subway ...
Have you ever felt the urge to do something totally spontaneous and generous for someone but then pulled back at the last minute for any number of "logical" ...
