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Cardinal Arinze weighs in on the Communion debate and recalls the saint who inspired his vocation.

"When people are really persecuted, you need to help them. But as for the phenomenon of the European so-called immigration, it is clear and evident by what we can observe, that this is an orchestrated action."

Rather than being an insurmountable handicap, my priesthood is actually an asset.

This is a chapel of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, and the parish is absolutely beautiful.

President Trump elevated a conservative stalwart with deep ties to the Republican establishment to succeed retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and triggered a partisan war over the court's future.

An "Allied Force" of the United States and other countries are looking to join together on the same day as a Holy League facing a spiritual battle.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador toned down the rhetoric during the campaign, but what will he do in office?

Nicaraguan bishops and clergy were attacked by armed groups aligned with the government.

The first student I met outside the Church of the Divine Mercy had a fresh bullet hole in his lower back.

To say everything that we want to say, we seem to need both a sense that we are kin to all other human beings and a sense of allotted periods and boundaries — that we stand in special relationship with and have special duties toward only some from among that one human family.

Catholics today are not required to believe in a Catholic confessional state. If anything, they are required to believe that everyone has a right under the natural law to religious freedom, that the state has no authority in religious matters, and that coercion of religious activity by the state is morally wrong.

We want to be fearless and firm in the face of majorities — even overwhelming majorities — that are simply off the mark. Because, despite the contemporary clamor, truth is not democratic.

Rumors of God's death may have been greatly exaggerated, but the prevalence of a materialistic philosophy that cannot give an adequate account of human freedom and moral responsibility has put in jeopardy many of the core ideas at the base of our civilization.

The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged from public life.

I'd like our people to be "cunning as serpents but innocent as doves," that is to say, fully aware of what is happening in our time in the Church but unaffected by it.

There is one unified, integrated teaching about how we as Catholics should conduct our lives in this world and what we should promote to our fellow citizens as the just, love-affirming, liberating, life-giving way.

In his writings on the topic of the discernment of spirits, St. Ignatius Loyola provides specific instructions on how to identify the voices you hear in your soul.

FABMs (fertility awareness based methods) are rooted in scientific data and offer a holistic approach to women's health.

In a culture deeply divided, this study guide program strives to inspire the moral imagination of young people through classic films.

Jesus gives us the priesthood; it is not something we invent on our own.