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In a Thursday op-ed, Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah criticizes a Jesuit priest involved in pro-LGBT outreach for his failure to preach the Church's message on the immorality of homosexual relations.

Work is a form of civil love: it is not romantic love nor always an intentional love, but it is a true, authentic love that enables us to live and moves the world forward.

While Cardinal Cupich's remark that "some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a faith system that they believe in" is understandable in a certain way, it's also very confusing.

To be discreet most commonly means to be careful, prudent, or circumspect, especially in terms of speech.

You must have zero doubts about the finality of your absolution. Those sins are buried. Dead. They're never coming back. Ever. So don't think about them for a single moment longer. The work of the cross is unconditional.

Most of the time, we were able to have our feet in society and our head in religion. But today the two cars are diverging. That is what I call cultural climate change: the walking in opposite ways of religion and society. How does this affect us in the contemporary world?

As today is Labor Day in the United States, it seems good to reflect on some teachings about human labor from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

New survey data indicates that religiously unaffiliated people in the US are diverse — and in many places, they make up a greater share of the population than any faith group.

Organized religion's shallowest critics made the mistake of blasting Islam along with Christianity, and the Left crucified them for it.

There have always been forces that have pulled marriages apart. But it is the forces that push people together that are growing increasingly rare.

New national polling conducted by The National Campaign shows that the majority of young women seek the advice of their fathers (over their mothers) about romantic relationships and sex.

False depictions of manhood as unconstrained self-will and manhood as dangerous or anachronistic are both closely connected to the belief that pleasure or happiness must be grasped in the here and now.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, nonprofits are scrambling to take care of the needs of the homeless, the stranded, those who have lost everything — and those who want to abort their children.

Happiness is a letting go and a relinquishment of self to God's Divine plan. It is to conform our will to God's will and to love God completely and love our neighbor as God loves.

St. Augustine famously said that God has created us for himself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in him. This is an expression of the Christian claim that true happiness can ultimately be found only in union with God. Our Catholic faith speaks precisely to this deep human need in the most profoundly human way.

Once we understand how desolation works, we can become free from its tyranny, and even use it to our advantage.

The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics is a cautionary tale of what happens when medical ethics are grounded in social policy and personal intuitions rather than timeless, universal, and immutable moral truths.

The decision to remove what a plaque in the cathedral calls the "unsightly coating" from the 16th-century wooden icon has come to symbolize the contested transformation of Chartres, which has been undergoing a decade-long restoration.

"Do not read a book, ever, just so that you can say clever things about it," advises the prolific author and translator. "Read books for instruction and delight. If you don't care for novels, read something else — but read good writers, not garbage."