Divorce numbers rise among older Americans, fall among younger couples...

Are my sins too many and too bad for God's forgiveness?
John Clark
“My sins are too many and too bad.” Sadly and mistakenly, such is the thought process that will keep many people away from the Sacrament of Confession this Lent, just like many years of Lents before it. We live in a world that often underemphasizes the badness of sin—there’s not much doubt about that. However, it is also possible to overemphasize the badness of sin...

Jesus Christ loves you with an intense thirst, as if you were the only person on Earth...

Pope Francis: “I also know the empty moments...”...
Matthew Bunson
On March 9, the left-leaning German newspaper Die Zeit published the first ever interview of Pope Francis by a German publication. The discussion, in Italian with the journalist, Giovanni di Lorenzo, was wide-ranging and included the pontiff’s reflections on clerical celibacy, the crisis in the Knights of Malta, upcoming travels and his own spiritual life...

God's love is revealed to you in the Face of Christ...
Anthony Lilles
In the Face of Christ is the truth about God and the truth about the human heart. To say that we are a mystery to ourselves is to acknowledge that the heart has depths that only God's mercy knows. In deep movements that we do not understand or even notice, He is there gazing on us with tender love. Through a glance that unveils the immensity of his mercy...

What does Jesus mean by calling us evil?

Abandoning Christ: The forgotten sins of heresy, apostasy and schism...

Homeschool moms offer advice on how to raise strong daughters...

The 33 Apollo astronauts weren't just heroes — they were fantastic photographers...

What is the Sign of Jonah?

Why airplanes don't fly faster...

In America, we don't have guns to our heads, but we have lawyers at our throats...

The German bishops have undermined the sacramental discipline of the Catholic Church...

Archbishop Chaput is right: We are strangers in a strange land...
Al Kresta
My wife and I, Sally and I, moved with (at that time) our four children to Ann Arbor to be part of a parish here, Christ the King, where we knew a number of people. We knew their commitment to the faith, and we knew that they were raising their kids in a similar way to what we were doing. I think it was the best decision we ever made as a family...

Catholic schools and Dante's deep divide...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
C.S. Lewis’ friend Dorothy Sayers was one of the great translators of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Her version includes excellent notes and a memorable map of hell. Sayers’ map of the nine circles of hell makes visual one of the most important teaching points of Dante’s great vision. Dante categorizes the sins with an inexorable logic...

Ben Carson and slavery apologists...
Deacon Steven Greydanus
Okay, so Ben Carson’s description of slaves as “immigrants” was incredibly tone-deaf, although in his defense we should perhaps note that there is some rationale for including slavery as part of the larger American story of immigration — a shameful, dehumanizing part, but Africans brought unwillingly to this country have certainly left their mark as surely as those who came here voluntarily...

Straight talk about “Beauty and the Beast”...
Patrick Coffin
The media junkets for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast live action remake of the lovely 1991 animated version started with the usual virtue signaling by actress Emma Watson, who can’t seem to get through an interview without mentioning that the character Belle is a “feminist,” with additional sermonizing at no extra charge...

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