Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

I recently spent almost five weeks in Rome, during which I found an anti-American atmosphere worse than anything I'd experienced in 30 years of work in and around the Vatican.

Within three years I would transition from buoyant new hire to crestfallen whistleblower.

This is no time to be dismissive. This is a time to work together for reform and a new springtime of faith in the Church and in the world.

Exclusive — Cardinal Gerhard Müller.

When someone we love has lost their way and needs a little spiritual help.

Silence. This is the real remedy to modernity. I can think of no better antidote to the cult of unlimited choice than this. Silence teaches patience, and patience gives birth to prayer. Silence quells our restlessness and puts us in touch with eternal values.

Henry Sire has been expelled for his strong criticisms of Pope Francis, but plans to appeal.

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

Perpetrator remains on the loose after shooting a woman and sexually assaulting another at the Catholic Supply of St. Louis retail store in Ballwin, Missouri.

At a time of concern over domestic political violence and the rise of totalitarian extremism in the US, it's worth remembering how the terroristic disaster at Jonestown was engineered in the name of social justice by a group that denied basic human rights and civility in the name of revolution.

"All clergy against whom credible accusations have been previously made are either deceased, or have been removed from ministry, laicized, and no longer function in any priestly capacity in the diocese."

The basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia will be rebuilt as it was before a devastating earthquake almost totally destroyed it on October 30, 2016.

Many victims were refugees sheltering at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Alindao.

Rest in peace, Stan Lee. You helped give us some of the most inspiring superheroes the world has ever seen. You wrote heroes at a human scale whom we could relate to very directly, whose triumphs we could cheer — and, hopefully, emulate. Excelsior.

There's consolation in all three levels, but especially in the highest. The souls in Purgatory know that, sooner or later, they'll be with God in Heaven and that all their present sufferings are valuable and redemptive.

Identity theory provides us as a society with no moral reason to object to sex robots or with the substitution of machines for people in sexual expression, a lack that raises grave questions about the sustainability of identity theory as an ethical system.

Researchers at the Southern Poverty Law Center have set themselves up as the ultimate judges of hate in America. But are they judging fairly?

When we surrender ourselves to this Person we are overwhelmed and utterly transformed, and everything in our orbit will be affected.

The divide between Catholics and non-Catholics seems wider than ever.

Jesus knows that we live in a fallen world and is more than willing to help us in our marriages and all our relationships.

Chastity helps us become who we are meant to be.