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Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has written a short letter to an Italian national newspaper to say that "with the slow decline of my physical forces, interiorly, I am on a pilgrimage towards Home."

"The truth of the matter is marriage is not an ideal. It is a reality," says Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke in a lengthy new interview with Chris Altieri. "What frightens me a great deal about the present situation of the Church is what I would call a politicization of Church life and of Church doctrine."

The full text of the speech given by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput at the "Into the Breach" men's conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday, February 3rd.

"This in no way is a rejection of the persons seeking such a union, but rather a refusal to ignore what we know to be true about the nature of marriage, the family, and the dignity of human sexuality."

Elizabeth Yore, attorney and child advocate, examines the Chilean clergy abuse controversy.

Those who get results are generally the ones with better strategies implemented with perseverance. That's true, too, of the spiritual life, which is too important to wing.

All the immense good that he accomplished will continue to bear fruit. But his decision to abdicate will occupy the first place evaluating his legacy.

Authorities had asked clergymen to post signs prohibiting minors from entering religious venues, prayer houses and other church premises. "They also threaten churches that they cannot be used if they refuse to post the signs."

Three transgender people want to obtain Alabama licenses that describe them as their opposite sex. The ACLU says to protect their free speech, everyone else should be limited.

The 2018 Gerber baby is Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Georgia who is the first child with Down syndrome to be named a Gerber baby since the contest's start in 2010.

In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of US teens who felt useless and joyless, classic symptoms of depression, surged 33% in large national surveys.

"Faith, when embraced, anchors the creative."

Radical secularization has transformed Christianity's heartland into the most religiously arid half-continent on the planet.

Just as evil may be understood as the absence of good, darkness as the absence of light, cold as the absence of heat, the absence of conscience presents itself as profoundly dehumanizing and destructive.

The #MeToo movement has the potential to correct long-tolerated abuses and to lead to a new era of understanding and respect between men and women — if it doesn't get hijacked by gender activists.

When we see that we are "wonderfully made," how can we do anything other than embrace our identity, dignity and destiny as men and women made by and for God?

I think the part of the #MeToo movement interested in discussing sexual unhappiness and not just sexual harassment clearly wants to talk about pornography, even if it doesn't quite realize that yet.

I was fifteen when I first saw Rome. .

If only for a moment, you will know what it is to be "alone with the Alone." Then will your heart become one with His. Then will you know a communion that obliterates all loneliness and a joy that erases all grief.

You might think you're in control of unwanted emotions when you ignore them, but in fact they control you.