Note from the Assistant Editor:

Photographer Christian Sinibaldi was granted unprecedented access to the corridors of Vatican City. Over several months he gained the trust of those who work there, got to know the city's inner workings, and captured scenes which are rarely seen by outsiders.

The bishops of Buenos Aires have sent their priests a document on integrating remarried divorcees (with admission to the sacraments on a case-by-case basis). Francis has written them a letter praising them for their work.

God does not command impossibilities, but by commanding admonishes you to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and aids you that you may be able.

The famous incense burner in Santiago's Cathedral, seen from its own POV.

Fully 23% of US adults now describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or "nothing in particular."

There is an honesty about open dissent that wins one's respect. Catholics such as Kaine, Pelosi and Biden do not.

The Senator and VP candidate thinks "his church" will change its teachings about marriage. He apparently forgot that the Church belongs to Christ, who is her head, bridegroom, and Lord.

Fortunately for third-string San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, there is no law — federal, state, or local — that requires you to stand at attention when the national anthem is played at a public event.

My decision did not come lightly. I like to tell people, "I did not give up romantic relationships for an idea. I fell in love with a person, Jesus Christ."

A former dean and a guidance counselor at a Catholic high school in New Jersey is suing the school, its president and the Archdiocese of Newark for discrimination after she was fired when school officials learned she's married to another woman.

A genocide that some began by the sword cannot be allowed to succeed through indifference.

there is a crucial underlying principle that needs to be enunciated. Christianity and Islam make incompatible truth claims.

The investigation has led to the dismantling of a "terrorist commando of young women" aligned with the Islamic State group.

The question is whether the human body only has value as an object of use by others.

Private morality can be a puzzling affair. An apparently good man and presumably solid citizen can hold to strange and incompatible views.

"The Lord does want men to contribute something, lest everything seem to be the work of grace, and they seem to win their reward without deserving it."

"Faith in the human mind had supplanted faith in God. I have brought man to the point of intellectual pride," boasted the Devil, "where self-extermination lies within his power."

"We need to make stories that put into the world, in a haunting, nagging, beautiful way, the core of what we believe."

We don't have the grace to thrive in a cave somewhere, we have the grace to thrive in this culture, where we're supposed to be the yeast.

"In my experience, there are few things less common than common knowledge."