At the conclusion of Religious Freedom Week, Notre Dame University hosted the inaugural Religious Liberty Summit on June 28-29. The event brought together Catholic and Protestant pastors, Jewish and Islamic scholars, journalists, attorneys and others to discuss the future of religious liberty
An Indiana Superior Court recently dismissed a complaint filed by a Catholic teacher fired from an archdiocesan high school following his same-sex marriage. In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, law professor Helen Alvaré writes that the case “is an important victory
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 of five U.S. bishops' committees.
In so doing,
A new report from Our Sunday Visitor looks at the Thomas More Society’s new “election integrity” initiative that overlaps with President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results in battleground states he lost this November. The lawsuits that attorneys working for
The U.S. Catholic bishops will vote for the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty and a chairman-elect for each of seven other standing committees before the USCCB convenes its annual fall general assembly, which is being
As part of what seems to be a new trend for the Supreme Court, it will once again take up a religious liberty case in its new term with oral arguments Nov. 4 in a case about a Catholic social service agency
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 the court in its next term. The
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 Little Sisters of the Poor should not
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber. In the court's
A culture of religious freedom "consists of respect for the dignity of others as they seek to live in accordance with the truth about God," said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty. "All people can thrive in such