If you’re like me, getting stuck in traffic can be a real source of frustration. It seems there are days I get stuck behind every slow driver in the area. The light inevitably turns red the moment I approach it, school buses come out of nowhere and stop to let thousands of kids out, and ambulances, cattle, avalanches and deer just show up out of nowhere to block my progress.

The days we get in our car and make it to our destination without any problems are few and far between. The same goes for our spiritual life.

The maturation of a spiritual life is not an easy way to live if problem-free... READ MORE

Elisabetta Valgiusti is a documentary producer and filmmaker as well as president of Salva i Monasteri (Save the Monasteries). Salva i Monasteri is an Italian association of academics, scholars, artists and media experts who want to safeguard Christian religious sites in areas of crisis. They do this through cultural and media projects.

Valgiusti has two documentaries about Pakistan and India which will be aired on EWTN this November and December. She spoke with Register correspondent Sabrina Arena Ferrisi.

Given your interest in the rights of Christians and preserving monasteries, did you grow up in a strongly Catholic family?

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OTTAWA, Ontario — After successfully battling an addiction to pornography, Matthew Fradd has dedicated himself to helping others.

“Porn is not just naughty — it’s evil,” said Fradd, a 27-year-old Australian living in Ottawa, Ontario. “It emasculates men, degrades women and destroys marriages.”

Fradd has begun his second year operating his anti-pornography website, ThePornEffect.com . He launched it on Aug. 14, 2009, on the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, patron of addicts, using $12,000 in seed money donated to him by a priest-friend.

Fradd’s is a lonely voice going against the culture... READ MORE

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A version of this editorial appears in the Oct. 24 print edition.

America’s Four Gods: What We Say About God — And What That Says About Us  is an ambitious new book by Baylor University sociology professors Paul Froese and Christopher Bader.

Its premise is simple and its promise is ample, so it has unsurprisingly garnered increasing attention since its Oct. 7 release by Oxford University Press.

The authors suggest that we can understand America’s cultural and political diversity in terms of what we believe about God, and that the answers to two questions — “To what extent does God interact... READ MORE