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Excommunication may seem like a mean-spirited thing to do. So why does the Church continue to do it?

Christians aren’t meant to think about institutions as a necessary evil; rather, they are to give serious thought to learning meaningful patterns for robust institutional life.

The Christian vision of success rests on a concept we often overlook: fidelity.

Catholics losing their confidence in the doctrine of the Eucharist is indicative of a much more encompassing wound: the loss of the sacramental vision of reality.

Christians often sway between caring about politics too much and caring about politics too little. How can we find the happy medium?

For early disciples, the name 'Christian' held tremendous significance and indicated adoption into a new tribe.

We live in a world that wants desperately to run away from God, but the main obstacle it faces in doing so is the Church.

A recent essay argues that the so-called "birth dearth" across the West has less to do with economics than with something unquantifiable: the human need for meaning.

It’s good to remember that Christian persecution is hardly out of the ordinary, no matter how “civilized” our time and place.

The Christian conception of the common good is that when the common life runs well, everyone lives better, oneself included.