Note from the Managing Editor:

Pope Francis told leaders of the digital world from Google, WPP, Publicis, Media-Participations and the publishers of the video-game Candy Crush "the world needs a revolution of tenderness."

There is a roadmap for dialogue with Islam, and its three landmarks are peace, justice, and education.

In his new book La Force du Silence, Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with serene strength to a world consumed by self-referential chatter and to Christians who have lost their awe of God.

"No matter who is president, Jesus Christ is still the King. And we are still called to be saints and to renew this world in the image of his kingdom."

Human life is sacred, but Christ himself proclaimed that our lives, the lives of others, must still be subjugated to the proper love and worship of God.

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life did a pro-Trump ad using an aborted fetus as a prop. Some consider it ghoulish, tasteless, and insensitive to the dead child's humanity. Fr. Pavone disagrees.

Instead of each of us making his own moral reality, as the Supreme Court would have it, dominant social forces create moral reality for us and tell us it's for the benefit of our individuality and desire.

Aleteia interviewed Johny Messo, President of the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) and Tony Nissi, Vice-president of the International Christian Union for the Middle East.

Unlike 2008 and 2012, when Republican presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama among Catholic voters, Donald Trump won the Catholic vote in 2016.

Active homosexuality was so counter-intuitive, and so clearly condemned in the Bible, that it has taken a massive 40-year propaganda campaign to break down cultural resistance to it. Here's how it happened.

"Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's election, our country will remain deeply divided and those divisions are, to a very real extent, also reflected within our own Catholic faith community."

It's a good moment to remember that we're Christians first and political animals second.

I expect to consider the next president, no matter which one it is, as a distant figurehead who is a threat to my family and community, and to be endured, not supported.

The demagogues of the future will have ample opportunity to exploit the deep loneliness that a post-familial society threatens to create.

At first blush the stars don't seem aligned for an auspicious relationship between the current administration in Rome and the incoming one in Washington.

There have been 262 euthanasia deaths in Quebec during the first seven months after the province legalised the practice last December — a number three times higher than anticipated.

If you are struggling, God is at work in your soul, even though you may not see it. He will bring you to perfection and maturity in his time, not yours.

Despite a major Muslim protest at the Colosseum against the closure of illegal mosques, Rome police have continued shutting down so-called "garage mosques," and now Muslims are threatening to invade Saint Peter's Basilica to pray there.

The iris and the pupils present the highly detailed images of 13 people. The same people are present in the left eye and the right, with different ratios, just as images are transmitted by human eyes.

"I think the purpose of all devotional art is that it offers a sense of presence of the otherworldly and through that sense of presence we can gain some sense of witness, both personal and communal."