Sarah Clarkson’s book, “This Beautiful Truth: How God’s Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness,” is a remarkable corrective to our persistent urge to “make sense” of evil and suffering.

The noise of this world makes a home in our minds. God’s soft, silent sounds live in our hearts. We all need more silence.

More than five centuries after her birth, we can ask this Carmelite reformer to help us travel the paths of joy, prayer, fraternity and time in our own pilgrimage to God.

The goal of the church’s nullity process is to determine whether there was some problem or issue at the time of the wedding that was serious enough and of such a nature so as to prevent a true marriage from ever being contracted in the first place.

The biggest indicator of how Pope Leo might govern the church so far can be found in the Sept. 26 appointment of Archbishop Filippo Iannone as then-Cardinal Prevost’s successor as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.

Is the world “the wrong shape” for women? Leah Libresco Sargeant, author, family policy expert and mom of three, makes that case in her new book “The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto.”

Even though we had all been friendly enough earlier, the whole mood changed. We were no longer simply diners in the restaurant.

Whatever the case, we probably do well to allow children to leave this particular question open. Perhaps the best answer would be to affirm that if, by God’s help, they go to heaven, they will carry their pets with them in their hearts.

A church building is a sacred space that is open to the public by its very nature. The faithful fundamentally have a right to join in the prayer conducted in a church building since it is, in a sense, their spiritual home.

Bishop Thomas does not hesitate to tell two important truths. First, gender ideology proposes a false idea of our humanity: one that denies the biblical truth about us, reduces us to mere bundles of morally equal desires, and does serious damage to individuals and society. Second, gender dysphoria causes real suffering, but there is no clinical evidence that “transitioning” yields long-term mental health benefits.