Note from the Assistant Editor:

The pope's remarks were part of a new series of talks on the Mass that should help people understand the true value and significance of the liturgy as an essential part of growing closer to God.

Two perceptive essays in First Things offer a different sort of insight into the pastoral approach of Pope Francis and help the reader to understand this frequently puzzling papacy.

We may readily accept that purgation will happen to us after death. But what we don't often consider is that the same love we will encounter after death is meant to cleanse us even now, while we are still alive.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) held its annual Fall meeting in Baltimore last week.

Your assembly, while never wavering in that commitment to Christian charity, has proved to be an effective means for coordinating the pastoral outreach and evangelical witness of the Church in America.

After years of research, the US bishops are rolling out a new training program that takes some of the best risk-management practices from other industries and applies them to child protection in the Church.

After years of research, the US bishops are rolling out a new training program that takes some of the best risk-management practices from other industries and applies them to child protection in the Church.

The theory we are examining explicitly states that fear of losing an important good is a justifiable reason for departing from "Gospel ideals."

Those who are advocating this change have little experience in living a typical and normal life as husband and father.

In 2005, Al Jazeera TV was "reporting on the mass conversions of Muslims, as many as 6 to 8 million, in sub-Saharan Africa, and they have repeated the warning every year."

Here are women's main reasons for dropping the pill.

Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason.

Arguing that victims of assault were being denied justice, the Obama White House weakened traditional protections for the accused, like presumption of innocence and the right to cross-examine an accuser. DeVos said the system "is shameful."

We objectify and dehumanize people in pornography, and when we do that, we dehumanize ourselves.

Whenever we're tempted to give into despair, we should run to the sacrament of Confession.

What's really behind fashion's — and women's — love of concealing clothes?

To hold that suicide ends all suffering is to depart from reason and science, and to take a leap of blind faith in one's own power of conjecture about the state of the rational self after the death of the body.

God willing, if the long Lent of 2002 led to badly needed reforms for the Catholic Church, the long fall of 2017 will do the same for Hollywood.

Vatican journalist, Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register, offers his evaluation of hte current state of things at the Vatican.

Judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.

My understanding of the writer's vocation is to receive, to respond, and — to the best of one's ability — to reveal.