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The cardinal believes reception of Communion depends on conscience. Does his reasoning add up?

Talk of paradigm shifts 'seems to be a relapse into a modernist and subjectivist way of interpreting the Catholic faith', he said

Archbishop Charles Chaput issued the following statement on February 15, the day after a shooting at a Florida high school left at least 17 people dead.

A French bishop declared as a miracle the cure of a Roman Catholic nun who was an invalid for nearly four decades and recovered after making a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

It is difficult and painful to human nature to face the thought of a penitential life, but it must be done if we would be His true followers.

Choose one thing your parish (or a parish near you) is doing this Lent and make participation a priority during this season.

An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential elements of Catholic life.

The Maronite Catholic Church asks for daily fasting from midnight to noon.

Jesus clues his church in to the strange reality that being hungry and human — and not being in control — is a necessary part of the way we are made.

Officials at London Health Sciences Centre says pro-life protesters haven't restricted access to abortion services.

Whether we are on earth or Mars, human nature remains the same.

The other reason for all those rules of etiquette for young men is they were part of a process of teaching young men to start looking at women not merely as play mates but as a potential spouse.

When it comes to romance, we overthink everything.

The Western fixation on romantic love creates a crushing burden for mere mortals. It engenders a powerful myth regarding love, courtship, and marriage: that a fallible human partner can not only share our passions but sate our existential yearnings.

Girouard argues that we need to see the difference between normal flirtation and violent sexual assault, and that children need to be educated in this difference also.

The process of recognizing that you have a problem and then coming to the point where you actually do something about it is like a journey. I think that very often the journey is not a pleasant one.

Children make us overcome all limits.

"Blessed are you that weep now," Jesus tells the crowd, "for you shall laugh." To the surprise of no one who's ever enjoyed a good cry, science bears out Jesus' prescription.

Here's how one schoolteacher takes time each week to look out for the lonely.