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Pope Francis is asking the Catholic Church not to see families as a kind of workshop to try out different pastoral strategies but as a "privileged place" where God is alive and at work in the world, ...

Over the past few years, there’s been a powerful movement to bring to light how potentially dangerous the college experience can be for many students. But have we swung so far we now need to fret ...