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The process of conversion requires small concrete steps.

The message of Fatima is about truth and salvation, about repentance and mercy, God's plan for the human race and the glory of the Church.

Christ does not fear drawing close to sinful humanity, and we need not fear drawing close to Him.

Jägerstätter died convinced that his manner of death would pass unnoticed by the world and would completely fade from human memory with the passing of the handful of people who had known him personally.

It is often easy — too easy — to resign ourselves to cultural collapse. But the world has more faith in us than that.

It is, ironically, by binding oneself to a certain way of life that one is loosed to make that way of life his or her own, to build it into something truly awe inspiring.

In the end, glorifying God and serving people are the only two things I have found that carry with them an abiding sense of meaning.

If a silent majority of private, non-churchgoing believers really did exist, it has undergone a precipitous decline. Five years ago, the number of people professing no religion was only 25 per cent. Now it is 48.

Only someone tone-deaf to what is going on in culture will fail to understand how we are only a few logical steps away from suicide being an act of personal expression.

Pornography's enjoyments may be private, but its harms are inescapably public.

We are born into family life. It is not just an institution by which we are prepared for relationships, and encounter with the world — it is the foundation for a civilization of love.

The ultimate union of eros and agape is seen in the Eucharist, which is the gift of Christ's own Body and Blood to mankind.

The official dogma of all Western industrial societies runs like this: if we are interested in maximizing the welfare of our citizens, the way to do that is to maximize individual freedom. And the way to maximize freedom is to maximize choice.

We must not abandon our imperfect partners, only the idea that a perfect being exists who can meet all our needs and satisfy our every yearning.

Create your ideal spouse list and study it. But most important of all, become the mate who is worthy of the person on your list.

Jeannie Gaffigan is co-creator and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show, which is named after and stars her husband. The second season premieres on Father's Day, June 19 at 10pm.

I had no untapped, unanswered yearnings. All was well in the state of Denmark. And then it wasn't.

When making religious art, I draw what I believe and I believe what I draw; I do not appropriate religious imagery for any ironic purpose.

When you look at Walker Percy's life, it's hard not to see his interest in the question of the self as having some connection to the tragic experiences that shaped his early years.

Will was obsessed with control, and argued he needed to end his life because it was the one thing he could control. But he could control more than death — he could control his perspective.