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In the light of the Resurrection, humanity’s story is a not a cosmic tragedy, but a divine comedy.

Ambassador Max Kampelman, who died this past January at 92, understood that true political authority had to serve the cause of justice.

George Weigel discusses the historic shift taking place in the Church, “Evangelical Catholicism,” the new pope, and the flourishing Church in Africa.

Abortion’s don’t “improve” with more regulation or better oversight. A clean, sanitary abortion still produces a dead baby, just as surely as Gosnell’s butchery did.

Pope Francis’ recent letter to the Argentine bishops’ conference provides a glimpse of the man, his convictions, and his vision.

The film “42” is evidence that, amidst vast cultural and political confusions, Americans still believe in moral truths, moral absolutes, and moral courage.

The recent papal interregnum and conclave underscored the importance of re-forming, and reforming, the College of Cardinals. Here’s what that might mean.

Pope Francis is no “Brother Sun, Sister Moon” romantic. Count on him to challenge the dictatorship of relativism in the name of authentic humanism.

The Iraq War crystallized the tensions that had been apparent in just war thinking for the past several decades.

Public policy that fosters individual human flourishing and the common good must take account of reality, and realities.

If the conclave of 2005 was about continuity — extending the legacy of John Paul II by electing his closest theological advisor as his successor — the conclave of 2013 was about governance.

Pope Francis knows that a kept Church has no future, whether Catholicism is “kept” in terms of legal establishment, historic cultural habit, or both.