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In a wide-ranging interview that discusses the Pan-Amazon synod and the Church in his home country of Germany, the cardinal says Western Christianity is experiencing a crisis of faith and spiritual leadership.

The special synod for the "Pan-Amazonian Region" has a difficult question to answer: Why should the Church intensify its efforts in these remote mission lands if the mission itself is unclear?

A study published in Science Daily says by having lots of kids moms have actually slowed down the aging process. But there's more.

As despicable as the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal has been, the archdiocese here implemented a protocol for dealing with it, and strengthened that protocol repeatedly, beginning in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, CPS only recently started mandating comprehensive background checks on teachers and staff.

The results of education being almost wholly removed from the family are not good.

My family experienced public school for the first time this past semester, and it was — well — memorable, up to and including last weekend's graduation ceremonies.

Today, anti-racism, like anti-fascism, anti-homophobia, and other crusades against bigotry and exclusion, is first and foremost an instrument of attack and assassination that serves the interests of liberal power.

We Catholics cannot restore sanity to society until we have restored integrity in our Church.

The Pride marchers do not want, nor do they intend to stop at, mere freedom or equality. What they would command is what the Church rightfully claims for its own teachings: the religious submission of intellect and will.

If you ever find yourself driving along the solitary roads of the far West region of New South Wales in Australia, you might run into a man.

What we know about those who participate in "pride" parades is they are not free; they are enslaved. Only Christ, who is always spit on, can make them free.

Few gay men are proud to have surrendered their movement to a hostile takeover by Democrats, corporations, Marxists, and racial identitarians.

How are we as Catholics to understand Jesus' promise that God will give us what we ask for when, on occasion, it seems as if our prayers go answered?

Live, fill your life with meaning, and do it vigorously. That is the path to real joy.

Satan wants you to be identified with your sin. He wants you to feel irredeemably damned, cast out, worthless, destroyed. Jesus reverses all that.

True festivity always involves a divine element.

The Catholic Church should never tolerate a situation in which a once powerful man who committed grave crimes is treated as if he were still a powerful man who can be allowed to escape the consequences of his punishment.

His formula may seem overly simple, but the truth behind it is profound.

In Stranger Things, the movement is from lonely, unglorified individuation toward meaningful solidarity amongst unexpected individuals and generations.

Here are eight films in which Catholic horror speaks in less familiar accents, films I have never seen on other Catholic horror lists.