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The power of this Child, Son of God and Son of Mary, is not the power of this world, based on might and wealth; it is the power of love.

Christmas is thus the feast of the loving humility of God, of the God Who upsets our logical expectations, the established order, the order of the dialectician and the mathematician. In this upset lies all the richness of God's own thinking, which overturns our limited human ways of thinking.

Pope Francis is not the first pope to do much of what he does, but there is a distinctive, powerful and attractive way that he does it. In honor of Pope Francis' eight decades, here are eight reasons to thank God for his ministry as the Church's universal pastor.

Meet the cardinal who lifts weights — and is a recovering alcoholic.

The Braccio Nuovo Gallery, located inside the vast museums complex, is filled with stunning marble busts and statues dating back to the height of the Roman Empire.

Thanks to the enthusiasm of wonder, humanity, every time it loses its way, will be able to lift itself up and set out again on the right path. In this sense it has been said with profound insight that "beauty will save the world."

"This is a new age of martyrs. It's a time when those who believe in the transcendent generosity of Christ are driven from their homes to suffer exile. It's an age of blood spilled at a ravaged cross."

The Syrian city's residents are facing unimaginable violence. We must do something, today.

The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America.

What we are witnessing today, following the publication of Amoris Laetitia, is a radical adoption of the absolutizing principle of subjective judgments of conscience and private interpretation of all moral norms.

From mosque surveillance to new religious-exemption laws, a look at some of the issues likely to come up under Trump.

Film companies can no longer afford to take any audience for granted.

"The more I pray, the more I see everything in my life as getting better."

Failing is just the landing place that can lead to higher ground: holiness.

With every temptation I am obliged to acknowledge that I am disordered, and within that acknowledgement to then choose whether I will serve the disorder, at the cost of Heaven, or serve God.

In an interview with CWR, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke discusses the current controversy over Amoris Laetitia and the questions he submitted with three other bishops to Pope Francis.

"I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be."

It is only in looking back that one can move forward.