The death of Bishop Leon Yao Liang of Xiwanzi in Hebei Province on December 30 left 94 bishops in China still under some form of persecution for their loyalty to the Pope.

Although it's a story that gets little notice in the media, 100 million Christians are now suffering persecution, imprisonment, and even death for daring to believe in Jesus. Last year, 176,000 Christians became martyrs, but their deaths were not in vain as Christianity continues to spread at phenomenal rates in the most religiously restricted nations on the planet.

What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised.

Political correctness will be the death of Western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is wilfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures.

A Notre Dame professor reminded me this week of an old football saying: offense sells seats, but defense wins games.

It did, as it were, have to happen. A human rights body taking on the Roman Catholic Church.

Why was Samuel Alito's Catholicism so much more discussed than Sonia Sotomayor's?

Seven Jewish Children is a document of our age -- not in the manner that "progressive" thought would have it be. But as yet one more signal, though more sharply intense and fevered than all the rest, of how utterly inverted, how ferociously off track, the moral intelligence of our time has drifted.

Respect, religious liberty, resistance to secularization, and reason -- these are the four Rs of Benedicts message to Muslims. He devoted three days to that argument in Jordan, before his focus turns toward the Jews today in Jerusalem.

Dr. David Stevens worries Barack Obama is about to end his medical career.