One year ago, 32 of the nation’s largest companies, including Twitter and Google, claimed that a Supreme Court case about a Catholic agency in Philadelphia’s foster care system would disrupt their businesses, scramble the world of government contracting, and stop same-sex couples from becoming foster parents. In Fulton
Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed a law that legally defines religion as including actions and expressions, not just personal belief, which is viewed as a win by religious liberty advocates. Known as House Bill 1063, the legislation defines the word “religion” as meaning “any
Politico has a report up tonight with a leaked copy of an apparent draft Supreme Court decision written by Justice Samuel Alito that overturns Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. According to the report, in a vote shortly after oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last December,
The U.S. Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, according to draft opinion cited in a news report released Monday evening. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito writes in
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment by refusing to fly a local organization’s Christian flag in front of city hall, though it had flown other groups’ flags. The decision in Shurtleff v. the City of Boston was unanimous, with the Court ruling
On Monday morning the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. Its decision – involving a Christian high school football coach banned from praying on the 50-yard line after games – will tell us whether the Justices have a balanced understanding of
For nearly as long as there have been football coaches, there have been praying football coaches. And praying football coaches have frequently been at the center of the rough-and-tumble, back-and-forth debate over the place of religion in American public education. Joseph Kennedy, a high school coach from
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April. Melissa Lucio, a Catholic mother of 14, was given the death sentence for the 2007 death
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas may not for now execute a death row inmate unless his pastor can touch him and pray aloud in the execution chamber. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that states may institute limits on
Children are being targeted with sexual content—not just in social media, but also in school curriculums. As with other recent controversies, however, leaders in Florida are fighting back. Lawmakers in the Sunshine State have introduced a new bill, Parental Rights in Education. If the name doesn’t ring a
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself with the prayers of the rosary.
