Note from the Managing Editor:

Though the resignations of Cardinal Pell and Vatican General Auditor Libero Milone might be linked and the connection between them considered as part of a resistance to Vatican financial reform, there are more complex issues to deal with.

Pope Francis declared a new category of Christian life suitable for consideration of beatification called "offering of life" — in which a person has died prematurely through an offering of their life for love of God and neighbor. It's like martyrdom but not quite.

Bishop Crosby compared Prime Minister Trudeau's decision to pledge $650 million in support of abortion and reproductive rights to the nearly $120 million pledged in response to severe food shortages, striking heavily in many parts of Africa.

The restoration of what Aquinas calls "the equality of justice" by inflicting on the offender a harm proportionate to his offense is known as retribution, and it one of the three traditional purposes of punishment.

The always-voracious culture of death is relentless, but glimmers of hope exist as we fight on.

Liu's 11-year sentence was for "subversion" and followed his action as a co-founder of Charter 08, a petition calling for democracy, the rule of law and an end to censorship.

Westerners tend to think Islam's recent trajectory is one of resurgent Wahhabi-inspired extremism, but growing numbers of Muslims are adopting Sufi practices that promote peace, hope, and harmony among religions.

St. Paul spoke of the love of husband and wife as a great "mystery," that is to say, a sacred sign, which speaks of Christ's love for his body, the Church.

By attending the wedding ceremony, you are agreeing that decades from now you will still be witnessing God's Grace in this couple and encouraging them to choose love.

"The moment sex ceases to be a servant," observed G.K. Chesterton, "it becomes a tyrant." Evidence for the destructive consequences of tyrannical sex abounds in wrecked relationships, wrecked families, and wrecked lives.

My experience persuaded me that marriage is the only context in which sex can truly be between equals.

There are many stories these days of government trampling parental rights, but what happens when parents are the ones doing the trampling?

Gender-inclusion legislation removes from persons, particularly females, the right of consent concerning their bodily privacy in spaces like change rooms and showers.

GSA (Genetic Sexual Attraction) is a "real topic of discussion at the moment, with numerous stories of long-lost family members who reunited only to discover an intense sexual attraction, being bandied about all over the place."

Previous temptations to unbelief are overcome by the grace of faith that is real, not imagined.

If you didn't mean to be a pain in the neck to someone, admit you were and ask the person to forgive you.

Correcting our misunderstanding of humility, a virtue that leaves us nowhere to hide.

What use will we have for the transcendental — the good, the true, and the beautiful — when all that keeps our attention is comfort and entertainment?

Opening and maintaining a private religious school in the 2010s can be extremely difficult. But in the crowded landscape of independent schools within the Greater Boston area, St. Benedict Elementary is thriving.

Science cannot give us a philosophy, not can it give us an ethics; it cannot give us a philosophy, because it immerses man in nature and avoids the important subject of his destiny. It cannot give us an ethics because science by itself is amoral.