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Nothing of what a repentant sinner places before God's mercy can be excluded from the embrace of his forgiveness.

"Doubts that touch the faith, in a positive sense, are a sign that we want to know God."

"Drugs are a wound that traps many people in the networks. They are victims have lost their freedom to fall into slavery; slavery of a dependency we can call chemistry."

Francis talks about the fruits of the Jubilee, the relationship between mercy and justice, the "temptations" a Pope faces, the "grace" of humor, and the secret to managing one's commitments without getting stressed.

The Holy Father's favorite film challenges us to look outside of ourselves in service to mercy.

The "Four Cardinals only did their basic duty as bishops and cardinals, which consists in actively contributing so that the revelation transmitted through the Apostles might be guarded sacredly and might be faithfully interpreted."

Critics argue that to say two-thirds of synod fathers supported the proposition is therefore very misleading.

Martin Scorsese's passion project Silence, about Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan, is set to be screened at the Vatican this month.

The new Romanitas Press website offers a wealth of resources for the traditional Mass.

I've been thinking a lot about the best imaginable Trump voter.

Pro-life leaders say the Republican sweep gives them an opportunity to roll back legal abortion — but others warn the movement needs to expand heavily at the cultural level.

The State Counsel said that allowing people with Down syndrome to smile was "inappropriate" because people's expression of happiness was "likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices."

In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable.

It's called the chapel.

The problem with higher education is that colleges are operating more like businesses and less like a social good.

Impulsive judgments, directed by uncritically inherited prejudices, formed by one's own narrow experience, may themselves be manifestations of unjustified rigidity, even when they claim to be advancing the cause of human liberation.

Are traditional arguments for the existence of God at least suspect — if not false — in the light of what modern philosophy tells us about the limits of human understanding?

Second in a series on spiritual warfare: The satanic attack that exploits our passivity, weakness and shame.

"I am asking you to live a quiet life of conviction and virtue and actually live out what you profess to believe. If you can do that, you will be a leader, you will be persuasive, and your generation will be the one that gets our country back on the right path."

Francis' apparent determination to see a rapprochement with Beijing has already caused unease among some who are worried that he might give too much away to the hard-line Chinese president, Xi Jinping.