John Paul was an ecumenical and interreligious innovator.

This year’s Rite of Election in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was beautiful. The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen was filled to overflowing. Nearly 800 catechumens and candidates for reception into the church were joined by their godparents, sponsors, families and friends.

If a Catholic attends a clearly invalid wedding in the normal festive spirit, they are celebrating something which is, at least objectively “on paper,” a falsehood.

If the Cross of Christ shows us anything, it is that loving sinners requires a willingness to suffer.

We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.

While it began as an independent crowd-funded series, “The Chosen” has now become a global phenomenon as the most watched series in the world.

Most people discover that coming back to the church is not an event as much as it is a process that involves a little pain, a little laughter, some thinking, some prayer, some discernment and a lot of letting go.

The door to that future is always open for us: it is the door of the confessional where sins committed after baptism are forgiven.

There have been many canonized saints who were treated very badly by church leaders of their day, through no fault of their own.

Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about how St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” released 30 years ago, provided a pro-life vision that remains relevant today.