Note from the Managing Editor:

"At this place and time in history, there is great need for men and women who hear the cry of the poor and respond with mercy and generosity."

"We are accustomed to a culture of indifference and we must strive and ask for the grace to create a culture of fruitful encounter that restores to each person his or her own dignity as a child of God."

Religious diversity belongs to the order of the fall into sin because man is open to resistance and hence to distorting, misinterpreting, and rejecting God's revelation in creation and redemption in Christ.

Redefining marriage furthers no one's rights, least of all those of children, who should not purposely be deprived of the right to be nurtured and loved by a mother and a father.

If the Church does not uphold the teachings of Christ and the sacredness of the sacraments, what then is the purpose of the Church? It's no wonder that some journalists speculate they are witnesses to the demise of Catholicism.

For the past week, Bishop Robert Barron has been sequestered in Rome for the Formation for New Bishops' program, more colloquially known as Baby Bishop School.

I think the response of the people indicates that there is a hunger for formation in the sacred liturgy.

From the outside the Catholic Church can sometimes look like a rigid system of command-and-control, one in which there are severe penalties for coloring outside the lines. Fr. Gabriele Amorth, Rome's most celebrated exorcist who died Friday at 91, proved that's only true if you allow it to be.

The program seeks to provide training and formation for artists, priests, religious, laity or "anyone looking to create beauty as a sign of hope in today's world."

Obianuju Ekeocha is a UK-based activist and author from Nigeria who founded Culture of Life Africa, which defends African culture from Western governments and charities intent on pushing a 'progressive' agenda on African families.

Home once meant a place exclusively for one's family and occasionally guests. It is becoming conceptually a place where everyone belongs except what is meant by a family.

"Moral relativism is inconsistent with tolerance, closed off to the possibility of moral truth, and an intellectual failure."

attracting youth, we rarely keep them. One reason we don't is because we can't use worldly methods to beat the world at its own game.

I have sometimes jokingly told my friends in Opus Dei that were I to found a religious movement, I would make its principal characteristic the sanctification of sleep.

A firm purpose of amendment is the honest intention to make a serious, sustained effort not to sin again. And that intention must include determination to begin the effort here and now.

The reason a supernaturally oriented Christianity grows is that it is congruent with the purposes of the Holy Spirit, and also that it presents something that the world cannot.

The simple answer is: We are all in this together.

Hollywood has fused itself to demons now and will not let go. It's fair to ask: Who has hold of whom?