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Pontiff becomes second pope to speak to astronauts orbiting the Earth with live streamed video call from the Vatican.

Given the pope's usual disinclination to answer his critics, it may seem a little puzzling as to why he quickly and publicly responded to Cardinal Robert Sarah about the implications of the pontiff's recent decisions on liturgical translation.

Each doctrinal crisis, St. Vincent tells us, is a chance to renew our love for Our Lord.

Protestantism has become an end in itself, even though it's hard to explain from a Protestant point of view why it should exist.

As Yale historian Carlos Eire shows in his eminently readable and magisterial work, Reformations: The Early Modern World, there were multiple, contending reformations in play in the first centuries of modernity.

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

A pro-marriage student group at Georgetown University is in danger of being defunded and barred from campus facilities, after fellow students have petitioned that it be recognized as a hate group.

If you study philosophy at UT-San Antonio, you are in an academic culture where you can be threatened with severe sanctions, including dismissal, for making statements that offend another student. Never mind that they might be true.

The US State Department has reported that the Myanmar-China bride trade is "increasing."

Xi said that religions not sufficiently conformed to Communist ideals pose a threat to the country's government, and therefore must become more "Chinese-oriented."

Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of Afghanistan. He lives in Kabul and recently spoke with Eduardo Andino about the challenges of his Mission.

Conservatives cheer and liberals jeer New York psychoanalyst Erica Komisar's book on the science of early childhood development.

Doctors in the US have been pioneering an astonishing new treatment for spina bifida in which the baby is operated on before birth.

Dr. Richard Gallagher is called upon by priests to evaluate and advise on cases.

A life of crime and drug addiction landed Khristian Briones, 39, in prison for ten years. During that time, he paid his debt to society and set out on a path of faith and conversion that began with praying the Rosary.

Here are three practical steps that men can take to affirm the dignity of women.

We will know that gays are reaching real equality in our society when gay men are held by the media and others to the same standards as straight ones regarding sexual behavior.

The strength of a man through the lens of lust can deeply affect the heart of a woman.

His was a rags-to-riches story. But when Charles Mully decided to devote his fortune to serving the poor, the real story began.

Beneath the walls and ruins of the Vatican in the crypt of St. Peter's, a series of unexpected deaths spooked popes and the entire city of Rome for centuries.