The truth is that the faithfulness of every married couple in a parish serves to encourage and strengthen the commitment of their parish priest to his vocation, and vice versa. This makes for a vibrant, healthy parish that, in turn, enriches and encourages the community, the nation, and the world.

Accessible theology has, alas, been equated with microscopic theologies. And it’s a measure we must always be keen to resist.

“For, in a delicious twist of irony, their last statement reveals that Baden and Moss are the ones mired in ‘traditional’ ways of thinking about women in the Church. While they continue to confuse function and holiness, Francis has been pontificating about the need for the whole Church militant to progress out of a medieval association between miter and might.”

The Relationships in America survey’s treatment of same-sex marriage occasions a crucial point about the importance of language in the marriage debate.

Confronted with the reign of the untethered subjective ego and its desires, we must exorcise the demon that “love is god” and reorient love clearly in service to the shared goods that animate our desires for relationship.

Those who champion a competitive market economy and a commercial civilization and at the same time oppose the latest manifestations of decadent liberalism, such as legalized abortion or same-sex “marriages,” are fooling themselves, or trying to fool the rest of us: for liberalism is responsible for both.

Michael Bradley reviews the recent release from Ignatius Press, On Human Life.

Laurie F. DeRose corrects the narrative that decreased fertility rates necessarily reflect greater female empowerment, warning that advocacy for women’s empowerment as a population policy ought to take to heart three key truths.