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Jesus is the Son of God, and He is the Source of human rights, of natural law, and of the legitimate authority of "Caesar," meaning those who govern.

One of the disappointing features of our controversies about biblical translations, the readings in the lectionary, the composition of our hymnals, sacred art in our churches, and gestures and actions in our liturgies, is that people in charge of things seem to be poorly versed in the humanities.

Jordan Peterson in conversation with Bishop Barron.

When one reads Pope Francis's statements about the death penalty carefully, it turns out to be difficult to interpret them in a way that would make assent to them binding on Catholics.

Rod Dreher joins the First Things podcast to discuss his new book, "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents."

In 1951, security forces in communist Czechoslovakia arrested Silvester Krcmery — and as they were taking him away, he burst out laughing.

There could be certain instances where the Lord permits a soul in heaven to send us a word, message, sign or consolation. However, this does not seem to be something we should regularly expect, and we should be very discerning before simply accepting that something is a message from a departed soul.

I think it may be not so much that people think they don't know how to pray as it is that people tend to have a nagging feeling that they do not pray well.

"It is outrageous that after incurring great expense to implement all the safety protocols, our parishes are being forced to reduce capacity to a maximum of 10 people in the red zone and 25 people in the orange zone," Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said Oct. 5.

If being Catholic isn't a sign of contradiction to the worldly orthodoxies of our time, then surely, we are doing something wrong.

It's usually said that the bad times began in 1987 with President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork, but the start of the confirmation problem came much earlier.

A review of Gerald F. Seib's We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump — A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution.

The ends never justify the means.

The minute we start bickering about how Covid is less dangerous than seasonal flu for those under 45, we have taken the consequentialist bait. It is always evil to turn to a totalitarian revocation of fundamental human rights, regardless of how scared we happen to feel.

We talk to two public health experts about America's COVID-19 response and how poor households have borne a disproportionate share of the pandemic's hardship. We need to urgently fight for a more just society.

Violence becomes the last resort when one has despaired of everything else. It rises from a despair of life as it is, given its imperfections and the difficulties inherent in improving its condition. Despair, however, is the inevitable path to death.

Chesterton House is a retreat ministry run by Glen and Therese McDonald and their family, who belong to St. Benedict's Catholic Community, the Ordinariate parish community in Edmonton, Alberta.

12,000 years ago, a mother made a mystery dash across a muddy plain in New Mexico.

A modified dialect of male song began in a local population in western Canada and, in two decades, traveled to birds more than 1,800 miles away.