Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

"What is missing in the IL is a clear witness to the self-communication of God in the verbum incarnatum, to the sacramentality of the Church, to the Sacraments as objective means of Grace instead of mere self-referential symbols."

Encouraging the laity to be more engaged with the Mass doesn't require a diminishment of devotional life outside the Mass. But in the iconoclastic, "purifying" mood of the 20th century, that's what happened.

An outspoken opponent of calls to dispense with celibacy, Fr. Carter Griffin's defense of celibacy relies on a robust understanding of the priest as father.

When I started this post, I tried to be thoughtful and write only in measured tones. But the more I read Rohr’s work and growing influence among Catholics and watched his videos and interviews, the more I wanted to scream out a warning to the sheep about this wolf.

"I was cured through Newman's intercession so that I could continue an ordinary life, if you will, but at the same time be completely devoted to him and especially God himself and our church."

Jean Vanier lived in community with the mentally disabled. In turn, they taught him what it means to be human.

More evidence of the value of active fathers.

Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy caused quite the stir recently when she announced that she and her husband — Representative Sean Duffy — are expecting their ninth child.

I don't want to write about pedophilia. You don't want to read about it. But the threat of pedophilia becoming acceptable isn't going away.

The transgender castle that radicals have constructed by sheer force of will is built on shifting sand without supports of any kind. The wave that will sweep it away is gaining strength. May the time come soon when we will all say, with observers of past hysterias, "How could we have believed that?"

Sam Harris is an atheist a moral realist who believes in objective moral truths — truths, he is confident, that can be grounded in science to form a system of shared moral values.

What if students were trained and housed in their particular colleges yet examined by the university? Instructors and colleges would be in competition with each other to produce the best students with the best results.

My sweetest big brother and sister. Words cannot describe how much I love and miss you.

Family members affected by the decision to end a life in the womb are finding ways to redress their feelings of loss, guilt, grief and anger.

Something "more" is happening in sex than a mere hookup. The truth of that something is what fills in the rest of sexual ethics beyond the "flimsy" ethic of consent and insists that what we do sexually can be wrong even if we both agree to do it.

Mothers and fathers, if you are having difficulties, I hope you will resist the temptation to think of divorce as an escape.

Well, one way is by considering what he asks of us, and in asking, gives us the grace to live.

Most of us have probably wondered why people who clearly do not believe in Catholicism choose to remain within the Church, actively working to undermine its doctrines, structures, and practices.

When we see the elders of Christ's Church engaging in behavior that denigrates the Church's most fundamental teachings, can we be surprised if we find ourselves doubting first of all their faith and, perhaps, the reliability of our own?