Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

For contemporary people, anticipating a bowling ball's flight trajectory comes far, far easier than conceptualizing moral or spiritual truth with the same degree of certainty. Our happiness suffers for it — but it doesn't have to.

Implementing its ultimate goal of becoming the sole deity revered in China, the CCP continues to replace Christian doctrine with the party line.

Brazilian officials actually think it matters what a body of bishops in concert with Francis might say about the Amazon and its international status.

What emerges from Marco Tossatti's pages is the image of an archbishop concerned above all else with the supernatural purpose of the Church, with the good of souls, with his standing before God, with what is due to God.

Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo is facing calls for his resignation over a growing clergy sexual abuse scandal.

While we are certainly called to carry our crosses with dignity, resignation, and even love, it's okay when we aren't able to carry on. Even Jesus was crushed under the weight of His cross — more than once.

Flannery O'Connor said, "[People] think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross."

Suffering is like a magnificent painting. From afar: beautiful, moving, and inspirational. Up close: a mishmash of random paint splotches, strewn about in random order — sloppy and very ugly.

Moral principles and good intentions amount to little if pursued blindly. Action on behalf of the good requires accurate perception of concrete situations and circumstances.

Once the journey begins, the climb and the trials we experience along the way can overwhelm us. We begin to think that the struggles are a distraction from the goal, when in fact the struggles themselves are a part of what it takes to shape marriage into a sacrament.

You won't find a better "school of life" than being part of a big family.

Politicians are saying Californians of many religions are causing people who identify as LGBTQ to exhibit mental health disparities. The research does not support this claim.

A new study purports to prove the harms of "conversion therapy" for those who identify as transgender. But there are at least four good reasons for being leery of the results appearing therein.

Fatal blood clots, suicidal behavior, lowered IQs, brittle bones and sterility are just a few of the potential side effects of 'puberty blockers' that the transgender industry doesn't want talked about.

Transgender rights organizations like the ACLU call this "fair." What it actually does is victimize biological girls who have a right to privacy.

When I converted, Timothy Dolan was widely seen as the face of a bright new future for the Catholic Church in America. My, have things changed.

The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted 862,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2017. That's down from 926,000 tallied in the group's previous report for 2014, and from just over 1 million counted for 2011.

A "one size fits all" simple solution will not successfully address the issue because there are different reasons that people are homeless.

The profundity of the act of non-violence and humility toward a man who held weakness in no regard went far deeper than a simple battle of wills. Rather, it was the great rupturing of the constant answer to violence with violence.