Note from the Managing Editor:

"The family born of marriage creates fruitful bonds, which reveal themselves to be the most effective antidote against the individualism that currently runs rampant."

Does anyone doubt that, in the last fifty years, we have seen a profound attenuation of marital fidelity? Could anyone possibly contest that the last half century has witnessed a significant breakdown of the institution of marriage?

Some three months ago I predicted that Pope Francis' letter to the Argentine bishops, approving their implementation of Amoris laetitia, would make its way into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Now it has.

Pius's words had such force because he tried to speak as a "We": He bound himself to what had already been believed by Catholics throughout history and had been reaffirmed by his predecessors. He did not wish to deviate from that tradition by a millimeter.

Cardinal Raymond Burke talks division, the End Times and what he would do if elected Pope.

Angèle Regnier says travelling the country with the 465-year-old severed right forearm of St. Francis Xavier will be "like doing a road trip with a friend."

If artists adopt this ancient approach of simple line drawings describing form and simple coloration, a wonderful new 21st-century gothic style can emerge for the greater glory of God and the Church.

Pyrgi is a picturesque medieval village on the island of Chios, known as the "painted village" thanks to the unique facade of the stone houses, which mostly consist of stunning grey and white decorative motives in geometrical shapes.

Since the French Revolution, Catholics had been rethinking the social order — chiefly with regard to the relationship between the Church and the new states, but also in what pertained to "practical economics."

The Catholic Church is taking Metro to court after their ad campaign encouraging Mass attendance during the holidays was rejected.

An Italian Catholic doctor accused by LGBT activists of defamation after she highlighted in a Facebook post the skyrocketing rates of sexually transmitted disease among homosexuals has been found not guilty.

Graduate student Lindsay Shepherd caused an uproar at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University by showing undergraduates a gender-neutral pronoun debate.

It's really a rather remarkable thought process for a doctor: healthy children who develop confused feelings need their bodies fixed so those confused feelings can be affirmed as normal.

Saundra Adams, the grandmother of his son, believes a man should not be defined only by the worst act he has ever committed.

Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic says more people, particularly transgender women over 30, are asking for reversal surgery, yet their regrets remain taboo.

George Weigel's latest book, Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, is the third panel in a great triptych he has composed in honor of the most consequential Catholic figure of the second half of the twentieth century.

From celebrities, to nuns, to the president and his parish, the Catholic Church in Korea is alive and purposeful.

Oscar Wilde said, "The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose." But knowing that the artist is a monster should make us alert to traces of monstrosity within the work.

Easy homemade touches to remind your children of the beauty of Advent.