On a recent morning, I was in the throes of PMS (sometimes this verges on its more severe form, PMDD). I was tired after a restless night...

It is a precarious concept to open your mind and heart enough to ponder if suffering is a blessing from God. When I first began to write...

On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..

How on earth could I worship an all-loving God week after week but believe He made a mistake when He made me? ...

A wise and holy priest once told me that we don’t get to Easter Sunday without Good Friday. Simply put, we must go through suffering to...

Our priest talked about how sin results in death – a moral death and existential death. Moral death in a person causes confusion, and the..

Struggling with infertility or loss can be a time of deep pain and sorrow, even to the point of having suicidal thoughts. Social media is...

There have been so many times in the depths of my grief when I felt as if I, too, was hanging on to that single thread. After my losses...

As we begin Lent, I find myself being led to this moving icon of Christ by one favorite Dominican, Blessed Fra Angelico. Art has always...

Is there anything that more closely resembles the journey of infertility than the season of Lent? 40 long days alone in the desert, being...

This blog post is adapted from a talk given at a retreat evening for women experiencing infertility and loss.

“Where are you, God?” It’s a question I imagine Joseph might have prayed in the interior of His heart as He learnt the news of Mary...

“Happy is the man who does not lose faith in me” (Matthew 11:6) but it is hard not to lose faith. In the darke

It is a surreal feeling to have your worst fear come true. From the time I was a little girl, all I wanted when I grew up was to be a wife..

So, fear not sister. In those places of littleness and longing and emptiness, press into TRUST. And please know that in the remaining days..

If receiving the news that a friend or family member is pregnant has been a particularly difficult part of your infertility journey, then...

I don’t know where else to go but Calvary. The place where redemptive suffering consumes every broken heart that God has ever and will ...

If you deal with infertility, you live in the US and you use the Creighton method of NFP, there is a chance you may eventually pass...

In the midst of infertility, infant loss and miscarriage, we may initially feel without hope, lost and angry. Our saintly sister reminds...

“God, where are You? Why aren’t You answering? Why aren’t You helping us? We are doing our part - why aren’t you doing Yours?” ...