Perhaps one of the most difficult teachings of the Church is about herself—that the Church is holy.

Jesus is the only final safety we have in the world.

The Gospel witness of the Sisters of Life reminds us that, amid all the talk of what's wrong with the Church, there is an eternal goodness that will last forever.

While a book like John Rist's is diminished by its flaws, it's not entirely unfair about our current moment.

How precisely might someone go about showing that he had authority, mastery, and power over substances? Bear with me: this is an important question.

In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church's canonical discipline was called into question at its very foundations.

In an age that prioritizes mammon over God, how many Christians will take up that courage?

In his 1990 Address to the Roman Rota (the Pope's ordinary court of appeal), Pope Saint John Paul II describes the inseparability of sound pastoral practice and canonical discipline.

Over the past few years, certain words, for example, "pastoral," "mercy," "listening," "discernment," "accompaniment," and "integration" have been applied to the Church in a kind of magical way, that is, without clear definition but as the slogans of an ideology replacing what is irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.

Most of us think that vengeance is merely a vice.