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Pope Francis told his guests that he had read the 1966 novel Silence written by Japanese author Shusaku Endo, which served as the inspiration for Scorsese's new movie.

While Pope Francis has declined to reply to the formal request for clarification of Amoris Laetitia, some cardinals and bishops have responded publicly.

The number of euthanasia deaths in Switzerland rose by a third last year.

The alien craft in Arrival don't quite land. They are massively, overwhelmingly present to the earth, but they don't touch down; the earth doesn't hold them. That's not a bad visual metaphor for God's speech in the Scriptures.

The vast majority of stolen artworks are never recovered — here is how Father Zerafa recovered a masterpiece.

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has launched a new website designed to help inform the public about their work. It includes resources for Church leaders on safeguarding children and caring for survivors.

Pope Francis has granted a plenary indulgence opportunity throughout the entire anniversary year, which begins November 27, 2016 and ends November 26, 2017.

Over the last few years, as controversies have erupted over the rights of cake bakers and pizza places to refuse to cater gay weddings, some Christians have begun to feel that their communities are under existential threat.

Universities and the media: arrogant, ignorant, and ripe for reform.

Texas has passed a regulation requiring that human corpses be disposed of in accordance with the state's regulation for the disposal of human corpses. That this exercise in tautology was necessary — and controversial — is a reminder that we live in the golden age of mass delusion.

While the situation for Vietnamese Catholics has improved in recent decades, threats of violence, coercion, and harassment still exist.

Francois Fillon has energized the country's many lapsed Christians. Will they stick by his side in the spring?

It is not be the first time the monastery has had to revive itself.

In this glorious dogma the Church upholds not only the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God, but also re-affirms that God works miraculously through individuals who, through his grace, change the course of history.

By pronouncing Fiat, Mary achieved the full role of womanhood, namely, to be the bearer of God's gifts to man.

Fourth in a series on spiritual warfare: Elijah and the power of obedience. "The only remedy for disobedience is more obedience."

To negotiate our way from divine longing to divine love, we need hope, a supernatural virtue on whose exercise everything depends.

The internet is boiling with dissent over his merciful ways.

Fr. James Martin talks to Aleteia about leading Andrew Garfield through the Ignatian spiritual exercises.