In the classic Australian film comedy "The Castle", a man fights to keep his house from being expropriated for an airport expansion. 

The former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith discusses tensions over the proposed reception of Holy Communion by Protestants, continued conflicts over the Church's teaching about ordination, and homosexuality and ideology.

The recent dedication of our parish's shrine of Our Lady of Aradin for persecuted Christians evoked a powerful response.

At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945.

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.