At each Mass in our parish we recite the Prayer to Saint Michael, which was written by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 when the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See was under attack.

Fresh events, Father Raymond de Souza notes, show the Cardinal was prescient as he was pointed.

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is all for clarity.

In several decades of living in Washington, D.C., I've met my share of scamps and scalawags, fabulists and outright liars.

According to The Pew Research Center, over 75% of the world's population (over 215 million believers) live in areas with severe religious restrictions. 

How can humanities departments justify charging students tuition if they are not teaching them to think critically? 

You need the First Amendment precisely when your ideas offend others or flout the majority's orthodoxies. 

Amid celebrations of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, we should remember the mass persecutions of 16th century England.

That day in November 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks seized power in Russia may have been the darkest day in the history of humanity.