The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting "the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches ...
Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia Dec. 22 announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed Dec. 11 by the Archdiocese of Washington regarding the District's previous cap on attendance at houses ...
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, in response to a lawsuit filed by the Archdiocese of Washington, has modified the current pandemic limits on gatherings at houses of worship in the District to 25% of ...
The Archdiocese of Washington has petitioned the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to lift the 50-person cap on indoor religious gatherings in D.C. In a lawsuit filed Dec. 11 with the court, the ...
Catholics in Spain are angry about a new education law that would downgrade religious teaching and restrict state funding for Catholic schools. If the legislation is approved in the Senate by the end of December, it ...
The Supreme Court Dec. 3 said federal judges should take another look at pandemic limits on California churches in light of the high court's recent decision to lift similar restrictions on congregations in New York. For ...
There has been little reason to rejoice in 2020, the majority of which has been spent under the dark cloud of pandemic. Yet rejoicing is what many Catholic leaders were doing on the eve of ...
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco described as "blatant discrimination" a return by California to more severe COVID-19 restrictions that closed churches in two of the three counties that comprise the San Francisco Archdiocese. On ...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's order limiting the size of a congregation for in-person services at Catholic churches and other houses of worship does not target religious gatherings on "the basis of their beliefs," but ...
An annual survey on public attitudes toward religious faith by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty indicates, not surprisingly, a considerable amount of objection to government-imposed limits on the size of congregations in houses of ...
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