Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

Of all the memories Msgr. John Delendick has from September 11, 2001, perhaps none stands out as vividly as being handed the helmet of a fellow priest who was killed at the World Trade Center.

There are now nearly 3,000 names inscribed in bronze surrounding the footprints of where the Tower once stood — and eleven pre-born children are also recognized as the victims who were taken from us.

Having announced a pregnancy or two myself, I've witnessed the shifting attitude towards new life firsthand.

Researchers welcomed the development as an important advance for studying the earliest days of human embryonic development. But it also raises questions about where to draw the line in manufacturing "synthetic" human life.

Count the cost. The cost is everything. Never count the cost.

Few Americans recognize the importance of the fact that the average income of Americans over the past two centuries went from $2,000 per person to $50,000.

Work and working people have a fundamental dignity that all societies are bound to respect and serve.

In May, a 75-year-old man with cancer named Robert Fuller obtained a lethal drug overdose under Washington State's "Death with Dignity" Act, and planned his suicide down to the last detail.

An Associated Press feel-good story surfaced recently concerning the festive send-off and theatrical suicide of a 75-year-old Seattle man named Robert Fuller, who claimed to have terminal cancer.

While many people claim to be opposed to human sex trafficking, what they don't know is that the demand for human sex trafficking is fueled by pornography.

Two penguins in London's Sea Life Aquarium are now supposed to be oblivious to the sex of their chick.

"If I must speak the truth, I feel disposed to shun every conference of Bishops: for never saw I Synod brought to a happy issue, and remedying, and not rather aggravating, existing evils..." — St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 382 A.D.

Several years before his death last spring, the Hungarian-American historian John Lukacs remarked to me, in reference to 21st-century America, that "this is what a proletarian society looks like."

Whatever the motivation, it seems that often in our world today, obedience takes a back seat to autonomy.

Even if you are miserable now, there's a lot to be hopeful about.

Dan and Stephanie Burke discuss marriage spirituality and a daily examen for couples.

That feeling when you have a tight deadline, or an unexpected task, or you forgot to do something and are frantically scrambling to get it done — I call that feeling "franxious."

The Victorian government says it hopes it does not have to jail priests who fail to report child abuse revealed in the confession box.

Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider have called us to pray a decade of the Rosary and fast once a week for 40 days, from Sept. 17th-Oct. 26th, so that six serious theological errors and heresies in the Amazon Synod's working document will not be approved.