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Learning To Take Leave, Pope Francis' new apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio, addresses the procedure by which Curial officials and bishops are invited to resign upon turning seventy-five.

Can there be "paradigm shifts" in the interpretation of the deposit of faith?

A controversial new government requirement on organizations applying for summer hiring assistance constitutes "an ideological test."

The heart of the current pontificate is understood more in the footnotes than the main text.

The Newman Guide recommends Catholic colleges and universities because of their commitment to a faithful Catholic education.

That we cannot imagine such censorship is part of our larger inability to imagine any escape from the online world’s immersive power.

We fallen and stubborn humans do need a divine savior, and Lent is an annual reminder that we don't have to die in our sins.

Around the world, there are four major Catholic rites: the Roman, the Antiochian, the Alexandrian, and the Byzantine. Lent is practiced differently in each.

The Vatican may force many local communities to accept clerics appointed by China's Communist authorities rather than popular "underground" church leaders who have resisted state control for decades.

Support for abortions past three months' gestation fell to 43% from 51%, while opposition to changing the country's abortion laws rose to 35% from 27%.

President Macron faces major questions regarding French secularism.

The worst mistake of liberalism is that it deprives life of its meaning.

The Fifth Commandment, besides forbidding murder and self-destruction, is taken to forbid self-mutilation and to command a reasonable care of one's own life and health. Drunkenness is a kind of suicide.

The Catholic Church has, in fact, been about the last bastion of the Socratic principle in the modern world. Clearly, if its authority contradicts itself at a deep level, something has gone wrong.

The great cultural rot born of the 1960s and the rejection of Humanae vitae lay precisely in this degradation of life and fertility from being a good-in-itself to being merely a useful good.

"There was no question that the Dolans were a Catholic family, firm in our faith, but in our household there was always respect and admiration for Billy Graham and the work he was doing to bring people to God."

The knowledge that the father is the "priest" of the domestic church is awe-inspiring. My kids will be influenced far more by what I do than by what I say. This motivates me to be a man of God, not just in word but in deed.

Physical strain and a stalker scare led the popular speaker and author to take a break in 2005. Now she's returning to the speaking ministry she loves.

Matt Meeks, chief digital officer for the Archdiocese of LA, left a career in Hollywood to further the work of the Church in a new media landscape.

While traveling for work, I was at a different Catholic parish every weekend. I was officially welcomed, but it was not working. Why? I think it is because I had to climb over people to get into a pew.

The best version of yourself is not something you choose. It's something you discover.