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In mid-May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to bypass Hong Kong's legislature and impose draconian new "national security" laws on the former British colony.

"I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles," said Archbishop Wilton Gregory after President Donald Trump visited the St. John Paul II Shrine in Washington.

Fire warms, enlightens, and cleanses.

Over the years, we have published many photos of liturgies at the London Oratory, but we have never done an article on the church per se.

Minority-owned businesses are among the worst-hit targets of looters and rioters who rampaged in Minneapolis and then other cities after a black man died in police custody, according to news reports.

Why is it that so many of our citizens believe that America is racist to its core? Because this lie has been preached by our universities and media like the Gospel for a generation.

This story of love and loss, of maternity and wifehood, is written beautifully, richly yet sparely. It is a masterpiece.

I am afraid that the answer is love.

As protests over the death of George Floyd entered their second week Tuesday, police officers have increasingly found themselves the target of attacks.

What nonviolent protest gains, violent protest unravels.

The Notre-Dame fire was a visceral experience for Paris-resident Poirier: binoculars in hand, she punched the air upon realising that the stained-glass windows would survive.

Out-of-staters and professional nihilists have turned protests against George Floyd's death into chaos.

This rhetoric claims that countries like America and Australia are racist from root to branch. It implicates all white people — even the most open-hearted and caring — as the problem. It convinces people of colour that the white majority should be assumed racist and a threat before the facts are in. In short, it is a brand new worldview that actually mirrors the prejudices it seeks to replace.

I felt the insecurity of lawlessness and disorder more acutely than I ever had before — and I've filed datelines all over the Middle East, including from the front line of the Iraqi Kurdish war against the Islamic State.

Finland continues to persecute parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen for publicly defending the biblical view of homosexuality.

The New York State Legislature has legalized commercial gestational surrogacy — the contractual renting of wombs and the buying and selling of newborn babies.

The past three months have been been a time of challenges, adaptation, and opportunities for the pro-life movement.

If you think priests have no business giving out marital advice, think again. Here are the top three words of wisdom that our shepherds have personally given us.

Dickens makes the impossible possible through imaginative language.

"If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you."