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A guide for making the most out of 2018.

Resuming a series of talks he began before the Christmas holidays, the "Pope of Mercy" focused on the importance of the Act of Penance.

Can I be a Christian if I doubt the virgin birth? Can a woman become a cardinal? What would upset Jesus today? I put these blunt questions and more to Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, who was appointed by Pope Francis and is in his mold.

The Church as a body faces East, awaiting the coming of the Lord.

In the Greco-Roman world, charity was given to enhance the giver's reputation and make others beholden to him. Since the poor could not return the favor, they received little charity.

When priests repeatedly tell their congregations that the key Christian virtue is "being nice," those congregations have a hard time knowing why any Catholic institution would deny what they take to be legitimate desires, because denying people what they want is not "nice."

Among some enemies of the Church, tolerance has in itself become intolerable.

The Christian idea is a broader one. For Christians, freedom consists not in how many choices you have but in whether you can choose the right thing, the good thing.

In light of the immense trade between our two countries, we must determine if religious intolerance is an intangible export that has escaped our notice.

A message from Witherspoon's Vaughan Senior Fellow Robert P George together with the current and former chairs of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

The fact that American education is compulsory and largely administered by the state makes its status as a free institution tenuous.

Group membership often is what counts for or against you, not whether you've actually done anything good or bad.

The 12 existing studies on how transgender kids felt in adulthood they all came to the very same conclusion: The majority of kids cease to feel transgender when they get older.

Facebook, like other useful and entertaining new-media communication platforms, is contributing to marital infidelity and other marriage problems.

Eric Rohmer saw film as a "20th-century cathedral."

One serious Catholic writes about another.

The new shepherd of Paris, a former medical doctor, is a vigorous pro-life advocate.

Ross Douthat and others hope for a stable truce between Christianity and aggressive liberalism.

Augusto Del Noce is the most important thinker we don't know.

"Color" and "niceness" are but a small part of reality. To limit civil discourse to them is itself a failure in civilized discourse.

In a show of solidarity with Egypt's embattled Christians, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Saturday made a symbolic appearance at an Orthodox Christmas Liturgy.

Here's how to better acquaint God's people with the beauty and naturalness of the ad orientem posture at Mass

Susan Brinkmann, once a New Age feminist, is now a Catholic apologist, award-winning author, Third Order Carmelite, and a staff writer and radio and TV host.