Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

He is now the "proto-deacon" of the College of Cardinals.

It is right to call them heroes.

No matter how badly we've messed up, he will give us another chance if we're willing to try again — and, this time, to call upon His help to guide us.

"The Church is for life, and her concern is that nothing is against life in the reality of a concrete existence, however weak or defenseless, even if not developed or not advanced," the pope said in the Vatican's papal hall.

It would be better if comments reportedly made by the pope in private remained in private, not splashed around the world by news media.

Pope Francis is reported to have told a homosexual, "God made you that way and loves you."

The tragic impasse that exists in our culture on the issue of homosexuality stems from two errors.

If you have a grade-school boy who doesn't feel comfortable in his body and you help him feel comfortable in his body, the activists use the pejorative "conversion therapy." But if you help that boy transition to a girl, that's called "affirming."

When Roe v. Wade is finally overturned, the matter will be left to the states. Some states will ban the practice, and more will follow suit.

The year 2018 has seen an unprecedented rise in pro-life activity around the globe.

As St. Basil put it, "the woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder; with us there is no hairsplitting distinction as to its being formed or unformed."

On Thursday I had a strange sense that the day had the tenor of a Holy Saturday, a day lifted out of history.

Irish voters endorsed expunging an abortion ban from their largely Catholic country's constitution by a two-to-one margin.

Using natural means to monitor our fertility is one of the ways families in the childbearing years remain faithful to God.

A charter school with after-school faith-formation may be a way forward in an age of Catholic school closures.

It is unjust to expect children to fight a battle for the truth when they are properly still in a period of formation.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, "We need to do more than just pray for the victims and the families, [but] step up and make sure this tragedy is never repeated."

The problem is that, to some, just saying what Christians have always believed is a form of hate speech.

Despite issuing a recent plea for more foster parents, the city of Philadelphia is ending its contract with Catholic Social Services and have stopped referrals because of Catholic teaching on marriage and family.