Anyone who has been fortunate enough to live with a two-year-old knows that the drive towards doing it yourself begins early in life.

Pope Francis' sixth year in office, Andrea Tornielli said, "was characterized by the scourge of abuse and by suffering from internal attacks. His response was a call to return to the heart of faith."

An Australian judge has sentenced Cardinal to 6 years in prison for molesting two choirboys.

In the culture of the shout, the intimate heat of the crucible of suffering is replaced by the heat of the Klieg lights, which reveal without transforming.

The second of Rome’s station churches is dedicated to a soldier-saint, George of Lydda. Soldier-martyrs seem to have left a particular mark on the memory of Roman Christians.