Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our series on plenary indulgences. You can find the previous installment in our series here. Based on your
A New Diagnosis of my Root Sin… I was back in my home state and surprised to get the call. I couldn’t imagine what it
Dear Father John, Can a root sin change over your life? It seems to me that increasingly sensuality is being replaced as a root sin
Dear Father John, Do you have to know you are committing a sin in order to actually commit one? You would think this simple question
Dear Father John, Thank you for your excellent series on scrupulosity. I have a question that relates to it, namely the occurrence of “bad thoughts”
Dear Father John, How much of a discussion in spiritual direction should focus on moral issues, such as habitual sin and possibly that of grave
Dear Father John, I know more than a few people who are fallen-away Catholics. They make fun of the Church sometimes, or they make fun
Dear Father John, I seem to be struggling with scrupulosity. However, when I read St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, they exhort
