Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Several Republican senators sharply criticized federal court nominee Beth Robinson this week for her alleged hostility toward religious liberty.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio Friday that during Pope Francis’s visit to Budapest last Sunday, the pontiff urged him to continue his fight for the family.

Italy has singled itself out from the rest of Europe with strict new regulations requiring a vaccination “Green Pass” to be able to work.

Anti-carbon policies in Europe have created a fuel shortage and sent energy prices through the roof, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board reported Wednesday.

A group of Muslims armed with automatic weapons opened fire on the houses of Christian residents in Lahore, Pakistan, wounding six, the Barnabas Fund reported this week.

The Associated Press (AP) described religious exemptions to the coronavirus vaccines as a “loophole” and a “bluff” in its report published Thursday.

Pope Francis reminded members of Catholic lay movements Thursday that every baptized Christian has the mission to evangelize and preach the gospel.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich urged Republicans this week to take advantage of the excesses of the Democrats to rebrand them as “Big Government Socialists.”

ROME — Pope Francis told reporters Wednesday that the Catholic Church is intransigent on the matter of abortion because it is “murder.”

Pope Francis urged young people in Slovakia Tuesday to have the courage to dream of marriage and a family.

Pope Francis called for universal condemnation of anti-Semitism Monday evening in an address to Slovakian Jews gathered in Bratislava’s Rybné námestie Square.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has called on California Governor Gavin Newsom to “forthrightly veto” a bill slandering Saint Junípero Serra as a mass murderer.

The archbishops of Los Angeles and San Francisco have blasted pending California legislation for falsely painting Father Junípero Serra as a monster.

The meeting Sunday between Pope Francis and Hungarian government ministers went far more smoothly than reported, the Sismografo revealed Monday.

Pope Francis extolled the importance of human freedom Monday, insisting it must be “fought for every day.”

Australian Christian leaders in the state of New South Wales (NSW) say they do not attend to turn away unvaccinated churchgoers despite Canberra’s claimed mandate to do so.

Pope Francis ended his visit to Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday by praising Hungarians for their deeply Christian spirit.

Pope Francis praised Hungarian Jews and Christians in his visit to Budapest Sunday for striving to view each other and work together “as brothers and sisters.”

The Chinese Communist Party has been naming Catholic bishops in the country without prior consultation with the Vatican, The Pillar reported this week.

Pope Francis warned against “spiritual worldliness” Saturday, insisting that it is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) warned Friday of a “huge battle shaping up over taxpayer funding of abortion.”

The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán next Sunday when visiting Budapest for the closing of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is urging Catholics to actively resist the Assisted Dying Bill, calling it “an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life.”

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, has censured President Joe Biden for attempting to coerce Americans into receiving a coronavirus vaccine against their will.

Washington, DC, Cardinal Wilton Gregory told the National Press Club Wednesday that President Biden “is not demonstrating Catholic teaching” by denying that human life begins at conception.

A mob of Hindu nationalists stormed a police station in India on Sunday, beating a pastor and two other Christians, in an assault captured on video that went viral on social media.

A Christian persecution watchdog group warned Tuesday that Afghanistan’s new Taliban government considers the country’s remaining Christians to be apostates, whose punishment is the death penalty.

Pope Francis urged Christians Wednesday to celebrate the anniversary of their baptism each year as “the date on which we became children of God.”

Unidentified vandals desecrated a Catholic church in the northern Italian town of Scandiano, smashing the tabernacle and decapitating the statue of the Virgin Mary, Italian media reported Monday.

Pope Francis has joined the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in proclaiming climate change “an immediate and urgent matter of survival” for humanity.