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Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

But there is a great consolation in being loved distinctly. And this love extends to the world around us: You may know the ...

Brigham Young University hosted a Valentine’s dance with a big band theme. A live band played 1920s swing dance music. A similar dance style, country swing dancing, had become popular, and my ...

National Coach, Pastor Junior of Recovery Church with Team Join new growing Recovery Church Movement in Providence - first in the State!</p ...

A North Dakota House Resolution to “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ” garnered extensive opposition online and in ...

After being guided by Dennis Schnurr for the last 15 years, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has a new leader, Robert Casey. Casey was introduced during a news conference at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral ...

New Cincinnati Archbishop Robert Casey discussed immigration, diversity and clergy abuse, including a past claim against him ...

ROME — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation of migrants, ...

On this episode of Hacking Humans, we are going old school with Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan sans T-Minus host Maria Varmazis (as she was hanging out with astronauts at the SpaceCom event). Not to ...

Ross Douthat, a Catholic columnist for The New York Times, has written a new book in response to this moment and to the ...

The Catholic church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mindat, in the state of Chin, in the northwest Myanmar has been badly damaged in air strikes by the Myanmar army. This church was recently chosen as ...