Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

"Even when we grow disheartened and tempted to judge everything in the light of our failures, he comes to make all things new, to overturn our every disappointment, to roll back from our heart the heaviest of stones."

Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa's homily from the Good Friday service held at St. Peter's, led by Pope Francis.

Jean Vanier is 90; the work he established has brought community to thousands with mental and physical disabilities

It is a hazard of having worked as a journalist in BBC News for 30 years—in my case in the newsroom of the BBC World Service that one can never watch or listen to a news bulletin without thinking of how the headline should have been written and how much better the story could have been told.

"I guess what moved me to enter (the seminary) was seeing it as a way to bring my friends closer to God."

All this is part of the broader pattern of anti-Christian violence around the world, a "global war on Christians."

According to the BBC there has been concern that Sri Lankans who had been part of the Islamic State could become a threat, as they have begun returning to the country from the Middle East.

Lent can be a strange liturgical season for mothers.

As we prepare for Easter, we should pray for a profound reorientation to the knowledge that "we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens" and act accordingly.

Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the rabbi Jesus from Nazareth, meant by "rising from the dead".

Our task is not to make a "better world," but to make better persons in whatever world we find ourselves.

Christians ended slavery. That is the considered conclusion of a Nobel laureate, a former communist, a secular Jew, and arguably the foremost scholar on American slavery.

Mothers are very good at educating and protecting our children from harm when we believe they are in danger. This time, that danger is the sexual ideology of the Left.

It may be affecting more than you think.

In an era of evidence-based medicine, gender dysphoria is somehow exempt.

The only piece of research done on transgender women competing in women's sports had a sample size of eight people.

And the young, brilliant professor who made them before he died.

The Cathedral fire represented, to all those watching, the loss of something beyond the physical building itself.

The Sistine Chapel is one of the most iconic buildings on earth—but there's a lot you probably don't know about it.