‘Amoris Laetitia’ is more than a theology for marriage and family life.

My journal lists the names of 19 children this year who died after I spoke with their crying mother, their weary father.

“Being close to the created world is a way of being close to the creator, and that’s why sciences played such an important role in the apostolates of the Jesuits,” said the director of the Vatican Observatory.

Carol Keehan, D.C., the former head of the Catholic Health Association who was credited with helping pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, was recognized with the Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension.

On “Inside the Vatican” this week, host Colleen Dulle asks Gerard O’Connell how Archbishop Cordileone’s statement has been received at the Vatican and whether the Vatican will intervene.

If the elderly, who have seen it all by that time, keep intact their passion for justice, then there is hope for love, and also for faith.