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Jimmy Lai is a 78-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement some seven hundred days longer than the United States was engaged in World War II, and is now serving a ten-year sentence for threatening Chinese national security.

From Christmas to Calvary, two modern Catholic witnesses—Ukraine's Sviatoslav Shevchuk and Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai—endure suffering with hope, showing how the Via Crucis leads ultimately to the Via Lucis.

Elected as a courageous reformer, Pope Francis was expected to renew the Church. But did his pontificate blur boundaries and slow the New Evangelisation?

The intelligence and imagination that created Voyager 1, and that has kept us in contact with our “most distant emissary”, testify to the spiritual nature of human beings.

When doctors imagine themselves deities who de facto know “what’s best” in these difficult neo-natal cases, the ethics of the ancient Hippocratic Oath seem to crumble.

Political analyst George Weigel examines the deep-seated anti-Christian hostilities in Australian society, and the sickening corruption within the local Catholic Church, which culminated in the terrible injustice against Cardinal George Pell.

Political analyst George Weigel reveals the impact which the late Pope John Paul II — the first non-Italian pope in centuries, and the first Slavic pope ever — had on the fall of Communism, as well as the effect of his faith-filled life on individuals around him, even hardened atheists.