Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

The underlying problem with this document is that it eviscerates the clear teaching of St. John Paul II in the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici.

The guiding assumption is that eliminating the celibacy requirement would increase the supply of priestly labor to the Church without a commensurate reduction in quality.

This article will answer some of the most common questions about the process.

Father Mike Schmitz offers some clarity regarding God's will in our lives.

It is 4:00 a.m. and fifteen Carmelite sisters arise to this call, dating back to the days of their foundress, Saint Terese of Avila.

Many readers will be happy to know progress is being made with the construction of the new traditional Carmel in Fairfield, Pennsylvania.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan explains.

How can the choice to have an abortion be protected under the penumbras of privacy but the choice of who comes over for Thanksgiving and Christmas be restricted for reasons of public health?

"They canceled Easter. Is Christmas next?" Matthew Hennessey asked this question in the Wall Street Journal on December 8. We bishops have been hearing variations on Hennessey's cry from our people as we approach another pandemic-dominated Lent, barely a month away.

In times of upheaval and danger, the tendency might be to discard as useless the heritage of the past, as though it could have no bearing on the present distress. But precisely here we can make our greatest mistake.

The mob assault on the Capitol is simply another entry in the catalog of American decline.

When we say "I have an identity" these days, we mean something more than time. We mean the group of which we're a member that has a certain status in the great continuum of innocence and transgression.

Archbishop Michel Aupetit, who practiced medicine and taught bioethics at a medical school before entering the priesthood, has raised concerns that human embryos are being trivialized and "discarded like vulgar consumable products."

The Archbishop-Elect of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, gave an interview to the Irish Times soon after his appointment had been announced by the Holy See, calling the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on homosexuality merely technical.

We must read the "signs of the times" and strategically rebuild with an eye to true freedom.

I may not live in a monastic community like St. Benedict, but I live among others in my own sort of domestic monastery, and I am fully invested in these members' flourishing. My Rule of Life helps me flesh out what it means to thrive both personally and as a family.

On the 850th anniversary of St. Thomas Becket's martyrdom.