Kathryn Jean Lopez asks, “Why are we not adoring the Lord in socially distanced droves? What is keeping us from him? It’s not the state — you can thank the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that California's ban on at-home worship for Bible study groups or prayer groups violates the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion. The ruling, ...
Legislation introduced in the Senate and the House aims to protect "the cherished freedom of religious liberty" of faith-based foster care and adoption providers who believe children "deserve to be placed with a married mother ...
Catholic Extension has joined the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations to engage youth around the globe in raising awareness of religious freedom and cultivating interreligious respect through a campaign called #forSafeWorship. The campaign is part of a ...
President Joe Biden's wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen ...
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 ...
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