Many would like to believe the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion settled the issue "once and for all," but instead "all it did was establish a special-rules regime for abortion ...
The Supreme Court announced it will hear oral arguments Oct. 12 in a case from Kentucky's attorney general, who is defending the state's abortion law that was struck down by a lower court. The law, passed ...
The day after issuing its final opinions for the current term, the Supreme Court announced it was taking up one religious rights case and rejecting another for its next term. Both cases sound somewhat familiar based ...
Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, to be members of the Vatican's supreme court. The ...
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 17 decision handed Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia (CSS) a 9-0 victory, the Court sidestepped an important question about the strength of the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee. As ...
Responding to the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a Catholic adoption and foster care agency in Philadelphia to only place children in households with a mother and father, Monsignor Owen F. Campion writes that ...
In a major religious liberty ruling that gives religious groups timely new protection against state coercion, the Supreme Court held unanimously that the government cannot penalize a Catholic foster care agency for refusing to place ...
In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so. In the ...
As the Supreme Court nears the end of its spring term, with several important cases still to be decided, court-watchers are trying to glean anything they can about the future of one justice in particular. ...
A June 7 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that hundreds of thousands of immigrants with a temporary immigration status cannot apply for a more permanent way to remain in the country if they first entered ...
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