“Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next,” Justice Stephen Breyer said earlier this month in dissenting from a Supreme Court decision that overturned a precedent concerning state ...
This is the first in a 12-part series looking at the life of Christ. It’s said that an authentic Christian is someone about whom others, observing him or her in action, are moved to say, ...
In an action shedding only limited light on where it now stands on abortion, the Supreme Court upheld part of an Indiana law requiring humane and dignified disposal of the remains of aborted fetuses. At ...
Legislation negatively impacts unborn, health care, schools, religious liberty, parental rights
What does the Church teach about homosexuality? Writer Russell Shaw takes in-depth look at that teaching on same-sex attraction amid the societal changes of the past century.
When the U.S. bishops gather for their plenary assembly in Baltimore in June, their immediate task will be putting in place a new system of episcopal accountability in dealing with sex abuse. Its elements will ...
In late April, the Supreme Court accepted three cases to discuss LGBTQ employment rights
While opening the Vatican archives on Pius XII may not resolve division, it will bring about answers
Let us agree that the 44 Democratic senators whose votes last month blocked the Born-Alive Protection Act aren’t monsters. But, that agreed, let us also agree that what they did was a moral atrocity whose ...
The Vatican summit on clergy sex abuse repeatedly has been called a turning point. But taking that assessment as a statement of fact, it’s reasonable to ask: turning to what? In his talk after the ...
