Come Awake

Why Faithful Accompaniment Matters I have become convinced that marriages affected by pornography, sexual addiction, deceptive sexuality, and betrayal represent one of the greatest opportunities for evangelization in the Church today. Every day, husbands, wives, and children quietly lose their trust, their peace, their relationships, and, too often, their faith. Some begin to question God's goodness. Others withdraw from the Church because they cannot reconcile what they have experienced with the hope they long to believe is possible. Many suffer in silence, convinced they are alone. I believe Christ desires to meet these families in the very place where betrayal has wounded them most deeply, revealing that no marriage, no person, and no family is beyond His reach. These families are not statistics. They are souls. They deserve to encounter a Church that responds to profound suffering with both truth and hope. That kind of accompaniment begins by recognizing the full reality of wha...