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This will be my last Christmas as the serving Archbishop of Philadelphia.

God has a plan for marriage and family: One man for one woman in a stable faithful and fruitful union, raising their children in that context and bringing them up in the Holy Fear of the Lord. We do well to heed this plan as a Church and culture or suffer the consequences.

We should understand Joseph not as a weak man seeking a way out, but as a "just man" awed by the miracle wrought in his beloved and aware of his own unworthiness.

The Tagespost Foundation for Catholic Journalism will invest in the training of Catholic journalists and in measures designed to help make the Catholic voice better heard in society.

"We just wanted the cardinal to know he was loved and remembered at Christmas."

Fr. George William Rutler was ordained in the Anglican Church 50 years ago today. All of the friends and followers wishing to mark the occasion with him wouldn't fit in Yankee Stadium. We offer a small selection here.

There is a beautiful materialism at the heart of Christmas. I don't mean the crude commercialism and consumerism that we see in shops and advertising at this time of year, but the wonder-filled materialism of the Nativity.

There is something profoundly deep and hidden within the word "joy."

Since its founding in 1941, 33 priests of the Legionaries of Christ committed sexual abuse of minors, victimizing 175 children, according to a report of an internal commission released Saturday.

There are times when you have to oppose something just because you shouldn't give the satisfaction of victory to its supporters. This is one of those times.

The view that biological sex is immutable, and that male and female are intelligible biological categories, is now "not worthy of respect in a democratic society."

Rowling wrote a single tweet in support of Maya Forstater, a tax expert who was fired from her job at the Centre for Global Development for stating on social media that a person cannot change their biological sex.

Over two months after the abduction and forced conversion of Huma Youmus in Pakistan, her Catholic lawyer speaks out about the importance that winning the case and bringing her home will have on numerous girls in similar positions.

Some have argued that while there is obviously a "single state," there is no "vocation" to the single state. I have always disagreed with this claim.

Raising a family well entails discerning the family culture you want to create.

It's a great time to start giving more attention to women struggling after childbirth — and beyond. In my opinion, here are a few things the Church could do to walk with and support postpartum moms.

While the state may proclaim same-sex unions as a human right, that does not make it so. As Catholics, we know that human rights — if the phrase is to have any meaning at all — are the same as natural rights.

Rather than the truth-seeking and healing process annulment is meant to be, and rather than being the exception not the rule, it is a forced response to sin. An attempt to make things right — in the wrong way.

There is good to be done on this earth during your life that only you can do.

After Martin Scorsese made Silence, Malick wrote him to ask, "What does Christ want from us?" A Hidden Life is, in part, Malick's answer to that question: Christ wants us to paint a true Christ.