For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.