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This is the sixth major initiative in which both clergy and laity have expressed concerns about the Pope's teaching, particularly emanating from Amoris Laetitia.

What can any particular group hope to gain beyond personal gratification and publicity if the Pope has already chosen to ignore more weighty prior challenges?

If all Catholics — the hierarchy, priests, and laypeople — would frankly acknowledge the imperfections of the Church, there may be many fallen away people who would return to the faith.

A conference sponsored by two pontifical academies embraced a kind of environmental determinism that looks at human reproduction as a mere bio-technical issue.

Something strange is going on in America's bedrooms.

Saturday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' appointment of Cardinal Raymond Burke as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura — the Holy See's highest court — which he previously headed for six years.

This year, Holy Week falls at the same time for Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians. "La Croix" is taking the opportunity to spotlight those Christians who embody the link between the West and the East.

Metropolitan Hilarion spoke urged Christians in the West to realize that it's time for all of us to come together, despite our differences, to repel and roll back the attacks on the faith in every sector of modern culture.

An exorcist who performed 70,000 exorcisms recommended these powerful prayers.

Our example is Christ, who as he was being put to death prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

No authentic renewal of Catholic life, and no effective response to the untruths that bedevil Catholicism today, will begin from the premise that "this is our Church and we must take it back." It is Christ's Church.

Everything today is a bitter dispute.

This week on Twitter, wits competed to improve on the moral idiocy of a New York Times headline: For all its flaws, the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.

"It's very concerning to think that some lives would be judged as less valuable than others," said Sen. Frank LaRose, the bill's sponsor.

Voters will go to the polls in May or June 2018 to decide whether to repeal near-total constitutional ban on abortion.

The tragic impasse that exists in our culture on the issue of homosexuality stems from two errors.

True welcoming means we make it clear we want everyone to join us in following Jesus.

"You cannot successfully block a slippery slope except by a fixed and invariable obstacle." In governing dying and death that obstacle is the rule that we must not intentionally kill another human being.

Instead of lecturing, I want to pose the following questions, in all sincerity, because I do believe there are men and women of profound faith and genuine intellect on both sides.

Support for physician-assisted suicide ultimately stems from the belief that eliminating suffering — physical, psychological, spiritual, or existential — is a higher moral good than sustaining life.

Bob Marley once wrote that "Everyone is going to hurt you...You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

St. Therese is the mortal enemy of spiritual mediocrity and the lukewarm.