The beauty of Scripture can and should be the foundation upon which we re-propose traditional marriage and family to the world.

In expressing that the Christian who does not understand Mary to be his or her mother is an orphan of sorts, Pope Francis actually uttered a truism.

It’s hard to deny, especially now, that the fight for marriage has been or will likely soon become anything other than a shellacking by the revisionists. Language of “commitment” befits a scene more like Thermopylae than the Battle of the Bulge.

A toxic Francis is a function of our un-imagination. And anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is dumping a liability.

Cardinal Caffarra correctly argues that we can’t solve the marriage crisis by a pastoral solution that only creates additional problems. It is fundamentally a crisis of faithful tradition, and it requires a like response.

It’s worth considering why Pope Francis has maintained a consistently hesitant tone toward intervention against ISIS.

Michael Bradley explores what the Instrumentum Laboris has to say on the topic of the natural law and the Gospel of the Family in the inaugural essay of Ethika Politika‘s symposium on the Synod on the Family.

Despite any troubles that threaten it, the extraordinary synod on the family is a catalyst for the domestic church; it is a reason to take seriously the vocation to holiness so many of us hear as fathers, mothers, spouses, and neighbors.