In a new essay, contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that Joe Biden’s selection of California senator Kamala Harris will likely put the issue of abortion near front and center of the upcoming election. With Harris ...
Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that in the late spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing toward a close, a novel called “Brideshead Revisited” made its appearance in Britain. Whatever ...
Before the First Vatican Council and Pope Pius IX formally defined the doctrine of papal infallibility, the idea of papal infallibility had been widely accepted in the Church for centuries. Those holding it included theological ...
Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the life and legacy of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, a French priest whose canonization was announced by the Vatican in late May. De Foucauld joined the military as a ...
Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the recent Supreme Court decision that makes “gay” and “transgender” protected categories in federal job discrimination law and how it might apply to another case that will come before ...
Disappointed prolifers were predictably angry at Chief Justice John Roberts for providing the fifth vote in the five-member Supreme Court majority that last month struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who do abortions to ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued two important decisions affirming the right of religious groups to manage the internal affairs of their institutions free from government interference. In one case, the court held that the ...
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the 2018 agreement between China and the Holy See, which expires in September. Shaw writes that “since terms of the Provisional Agreement ...
In a 5-4 ruling upholding a Montana program to provide student scholarships for use at religious schools, the Supreme Court on Tuesday also in effect repudiated a 19th-century monument to anti-Catholic bigotry known as the ...
In its latest ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court delivered a sharp but far from definitive setback for pro-life opponents of the practice. The 5-4 ruling Monday held that a Louisiana law requiring doctors who ...
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