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In his conversation with journalists on the return flight from Cartagena to Rome on Monday, Pope Francis touched on a variety of topics, notably the US government's decision to end DACA and the crisis in Venezuela.

Magnum Principium, issued motu proprio, shifts some responsibility for translating liturgical texts from the Vatican to bishops' conferences.

"The relationship between a young person and his roots is very important."

The new John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences will replace the original organisation founded in 1981.

The truth may not make us comfortable, but it does make us free. And knowing and living the truth ennoble our lives. It is the only path to lasting happiness.

What beliefs really separate the Protestant and Catholic adherents of today, though? The Pew Research Center created a survey that found some surprising results.

To enter into a dialogue at all is to concede more than the Church can afford to concede on such a serious matter.

Church official warns that local officials may still block the transfer of confiscated property.

What if Americans don't really share any coherent, unifying cultural or idealistic values anymore?

The family can sell their produce at a farmers market while their case progresses.

Making libertinism safe for consenting semi-adults requires the evacuation of due process.

Today liberals have their own tolerance blind spot, and Christians are most likely to get caught in it.

"We believe it is wrong to encourage very young children to embrace transgenderism. Boys are boys and girls are girls. Gender dysphoria is something we as Christians need to address with love and compassion, but not in the sphere of a primary school environment."

Being competitive, having the desire to excel, having the internal drive, and possessing a sense that one is playing for something bigger than themselves are a few basic prerequisites for success in sports and the Christian life.

By showing the faces and stories of addiction, the Cincinnati Enquirer encourages compassion as part of the solution.

Impatience is, perhaps, the great vice of our time.

"We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."

"Love is not merely a feeling; it is an act of will that consists of preferring, in a constant manner, the good of others to the good of oneself."

Beauty is the call of the Spirit, the invitation to cultivate virtue and to participate with the creativity of life itself that creates ever greater beauty.

We log hundreds of hours of couch time with heavy-handed romanticizing of sin and darkness. It's bad for TV and for our souls.