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Leaders of several men's ministries in the Diocese of Phoenix reflects on tough questions in “A Call to Battle — a short film on ‘Society’s crisis in masculinity.’”

Some are forecasting about a million anti-abortion protestors at the March For Life 2016 Rally Jan. 22. That group always includes countless young people from parishes, high schools and universities nationwide.

Messages on a license plate have the power to transform lives, especially for those still inside the womb.

The theology, Christopher West said, offered a prophetic response to the rise of a new gender ideology in which individuals asserted a right to choose a gender, often of their own creation, instead of accepting gender as biologically determined.

"We come with a luggage full of dreams," the deacon said, yet the ever-present news about Canada's plan to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees made him pensive.

The number of abortions, which had peaked at about 1.6 million in 1989, is now down to 1 million, but those performed at Planned Parenthood clinics is up 250 percent in the same time period.

She didn't get the crown, but a Notre Dame Preparatory junior certainly clothed herself "with strength and dignity," as the Psalm goes.

The Vatican previously announced that one Friday each month during the Holy Year, Pope Francis would personally and privately perform a work of mercy.

Greek life on a college campus doesn’t have to conjure up negative images. It can instead be associated with brotherhood and sisterhood rooted in Catholicism.

More than 200 young men — triple the number that registered in advance online — began their New Year learning to embrace Catholic manhood.