Our many fellow Catholics now enchained for the Faith of our Fathers in such places as China, Syria, and Egypt are, as Father Faber's hymn says, "in heart and conscience free." But what happens when a government tries to chain the conscience itself?

To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be the favoured easy target of every progressive thinker and every half-witted comedian.

Two weeks into the NFL season, ESPN ran a Sunday morning special exploring why the third-string quarterback of the Denver Broncos, Tim Tebow, had become the most polarizing figure in American sports.

Before, the government simply ignored anti-Coptic violence. Now, the Army has joined in.

Catholics have little legal future in this country except as a narrow, strictly defined sect.

Almost everyone who pays attention to religion and public affairs knows of Joseph Ratzingers famous homily shortly before he was elected pope denouncing the modern dictatorship of relativism.

Four Catholic bishops in China have been abducted this past week, forcibly taken to unknown locations by the Chinese regime.

By the year 2020, the Islamic nations of the Mediterranean Basin will resound with positive cries for democracy, human rights, individual liberty, and the dignity of every man, woman, and child.

Why is Illinois preventing the Catholic Church from doing charitable work?

The Arab Spring has not been kind to Egypts Christian minority.