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End the Welfare Marriage Penalty
SAM BROWNBACK & DAVID BLANKENHORN
We believe that the time is ripe to transcend the usual partisan politics and implement a plan to stop penalizing lower-income couples who do the right thing for themselves and their children and get married.

How Do We Find Our Way Into the Wide World?
POPE BENEDICT XVI
The address of Pope Benedict XVI to the German parliament (Bundestag) the Reichstag, Berlin on September 22, 2011.

C.S. Lewis paid a penalty for being an outspoken Christian
PAUL MCCUSKER
In the 1940's, while Lewis became a best-selling author, lecturer and broadcaster, his co-workers at Oxford University were not pleased.

Crossing the Tiber
STEVEN K. RAY
On Pentecost Sunday, May 22, 1994, Janet and I, along with our entire immediate family, were received into the Catholic Church. We have never looked back.

Book Review: Roger Scruton's 'On Human Nature'
REV. BEN JOHNSON
On Earth Day, April 22, tens of thousands of activists held the first "March for Science" in cities around the world.

The Father We Need
FATHER PAUL SCALIA
Most of us know today's Gospel scene (Lk 2:22-40) as the Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation in the Temple. 

Trouble With Discipline? Focus on Character, Not Punishment.
THOMAS LICKONA
Eight ways to use misbehavior as an opportunity to build character.

Vatican Sets Record Straight on Sexual Abuse
ARCHBISHOP SILVANO TOMASI
The following facts were presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Sept. 22, 2009 by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva.

A Day at the Beach
PEGGY NOONAN
It was May 1944, and 22-year-old John Whitehead of Montclair, N.J., an ensign on the USS Thomas Jefferson, was placed in charge of five of the landing craft for the invasion of Europe.

Catholic 'Americanism'
GEORGE WEIGEL
On January 22, 1899, Pope Leo XIII addressed an encyclical letter to Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore and, through him, to the entire Catholic hierarchy of the United States.

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