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"What are we doing to ensure that children can continue smiling at us, with clear eyes and faces filled with trust and hope? What are we doing to make sure that they are not robbed of this light?"

His role will allow him to assist in the work of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and serve as a judge when asked to do so.

Remembering St. Junípero and the first missionaries changes how we remember our national story. It reminds us that America's first beginnings were not political. America's first beginnings were spiritual.

"Rising affluence has made associational life less necessary for purposes of gaining material benefits" but "we have lost much by doing less together." Catholic parishes must address the consequences.

It's not easy to take a step back from all this, especially when the Pope himself specializes in sending out conflicting signals. But perhaps we're not stepping back far enough.

Many people don't realize that the worst of "the Sixties" actually occurred during the 1970s.

El-Kaa faces multiple existential threats, including Islamic extremism, a severe economic slump, and the sudden influx of 1,500 Syrian Christian refugees on top of the local population of just 2,500.

Muslims who embrace Christianity face special challenges, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen,.

All sexual assailants and workplace harassers depend on structures of power and norms to help them harm others. We give them cover when we normalize behavior that is just shy of assault.

The memos were issued in response to an executive order signed by President Trump in May, declaring, "It shall be the policy of the executive branch to vigorously enforce Federal law's robust protections for religious freedom."

Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, the Swedish scientist who designed it, says it's as effective as oral contraceptives — but without the side effects.

No one should be surprised therefore when members of the gay community also wisely recognise that saying No is often necessary for the common good. Every serious parent instinctively knows this.

There's not enough evidence to support starting gender dysphoric children on hormone therapy. Existing evidence shows doing so is actually harmful.

What science has to offer has become a belief system itself. And this "religion" fails to offer any sound, unchanging, and omnipotent foundation.

A Catholic Commentary on Scripture refers to "Two proper occasions for the use of wine, bodily suffering and mental distress."

This was, unmistakably, "above all things the worship of the divine Majesty" done with the rare kind of "noble simplicity" where that phrase's first word is given quite as much weight as the latter.

Christianity is not a philosophy, ideology, or religious program; it is a friendship with the Son of God, risen from the dead. There is simply no more intense union with Jesus than the Mass.

John Senior and two colleagues, Dennis Quinn and Frank Nelick, established in 1970 an Integrated Humanities Program in one of the five collegiate subdivisions of the University of Kansas.

Ruden has managed to give as rich and as diverse a profile to the God on the far side as she does to the irrepressible and magnetically articulate Latin author who cries across the abyss to Him.