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  • [ August 22, 2026 ] At friendship meeting in Italy, Pope Leo calls for fraternity: ‘Love is the law of life’ News Briefs
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Articles by Paul Senz

About Paul Senz
Paul Senz has an undergraduate degree from the University of Portland in music and theology and earned a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from the same university. He has contributed to Catholic World Report, Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, The Priest Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic Herald, and other outlets. Paul lives in Elk City, OK, with his wife and their four children.
Books

Why did a priest write a novel about the Mafia, Confession, and Providence?

May 1, 2024 Paul Senz 0

Art can be a tremendously effective means of communicating theological truths. We have seen this over the centuries and across millennia, and it is no less true today. In recent years, there has been a […]

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Lessons from spiritual masters about life and prayer

April 5, 2024 Paul Senz 2

Two millennia of Christianity have yielded a tremendous number of brilliant, holy, and insightful men and women. Many of these men and women penned works of staggering beauty and spiritual insight, which have become widely […]

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Finding the path to spiritual healing for the adult children of divorce

March 25, 2024 Paul Senz 20

Divorce has become an incredibly common feature of life, especially over the last 70 years or so. No matter how common or “normal” divorce becomes, the fact remains that it always inflicts a profound wound […]

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Book offers truth and hope for those trapped by transgenderism

March 11, 2024 Paul Senz 35

Pope Francis recently said that gender ideology is “the ugliest danger” we face today, because it “erases differences”, and “erasing differences erases humanity”. Indeed, gender ideology has rapidly swept into the mainstream in Western societies, […]

The Dispatch

“Suffering has the power to transform us to be like Christ…”

March 8, 2024 Paul Senz 10

All of us suffer. We live in a fallen world, and suffering is simply a part of life. This suffering can take many forms, and we are all affected differently by it. But why do […]

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“Think Blade Runner meets the Amish”: A conversation with Peco Gaskovski

January 2, 2024 Paul Senz 0

Some of the most profound observations and depictions in recent decades about the challenges of modernity, technology, and current affairs have been made through science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, and television shows. Star Trek, […]

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Memoir by fellow priest and close friend tells the remarkable story of Fr. Stu

December 5, 2023 Paul Senz 16

It is not every day that a major studio film features a Catholic priest in a sympathetic role and portrayed in a positive light. And it is even less often that he is the main […]

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New work of history looks at the Church through three lenses

November 30, 2023 Paul Senz 10

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, spanning the entire globe. There may be no more daunting task for a historian than to try to write a concise (but not […]

The Dispatch

New book is a detailed Catholic guide to the art of dying well

November 29, 2023 Paul Senz 5

Death is inevitable and Catholics recognize that it is something that must be done well. But what does it mean to die well? To die poorly? There are a number of spiritual and moral issues […]

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“The Eucharist is my Highway to Heaven”

October 12, 2023 Paul Senz 12

We do not have photographs of the vast majority of the Church’s saints and blesseds. Portraits and sculptures suffice for most of them, and those of whom we do have photographs are usually shown in […]

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