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Taken solely as a general view of the family, the Final Report on the 2015 Synod on the Family has value. But the context in which the text was developed is another thing entirely, and will be a sore point for years to come.

The idea of a period of formation for marriage that would cover a period of time both before and after the wedding day was part of the discussion at the synod of the family.

The USCCB hired a top PR firm to help promote the pope's visit to the US, and it worked: Francis got 73 million "impressions." The Super Bowl got 63 million.

"The Lord is never wrong. He asked if I will follow him, and I could not refuse."

If we are calling people to live a countercultural reality of marriage, then we ought to be able to provide countercultural resources to help them along the way.

The stakes of charity have never been higher. We live in a somewhat unprecedented time, where we have the ability to care for many more people than we can know and love.

To love thy enemy is to remember that the one with whom I disagree will one day participate with me, God willing, in the discourse of praise within the city of God.

I started thinking my way through the women's movement and how we had come to define equality — that women are equal to men only as long as they are doing the work that men have traditionally done. That's not a full gender revolution.

Evil seeks to destroy goodness but, in the end, it destroys itself.

Eighty-five percent of cancer patients suffer from malnutrition, and 40 percent end up dying from malnutrition rather than from the disease itself. Bene Plates delivers nutrient-rich meals to chronically ill patients across the country.

It has become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us better people — and more productive to boot.

By choosing Jenner as Woman of the Year, Glamour endorses the idea that men are better at being women than we are.

The ruling Communist Party has said it will ease family planning restrictions amid concerns over its ageing population, allowing couples to have two children.

Today is my last day as Speaker of the House, and this is the story of how I came to that decision.

A Syrian priest who was held by ISIS militants for nearly three months and threatened with execution has for the first time spoken about his ordeal.

Amid continuing controversy over fetal tissue harvesting at abortion clinics, the US House of Representatives voted Friday to defund Planned Parenthood and to reroute funding to community health centers.

Officers who practice their faith and rely on the help of the Church in general make better officers with better judgment. Living the faith gives them strength against temptations to cynicism and nihilism that can seep into their personal lives and relationships or alienate them from their children.

Our Lady's words that Francisco would "need to say many rosaries" before going to heaven was, in effect, her way of saying that Francisco was to become an entirely contemplative soul before going to heaven.

Present and future generations will learn primarily through video?. What does this mean for catechesis? REGINA asked several well-regarded Catholic film-makers in Europe, the United Kingdom, North America and Australia about their experience. First in a two-part series.

Many have praised a letter that objects to Douthat's comments on religion. We fear it does not go far enough.