Russell Shaw writes from Maryland.
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 Blaine Amendment. Referring to the Montana constitution’s
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 do abortions to have admitting privileges at
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected, for now at least, the Trump administration’s attempt to end a program under which people whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally years ago have been allowed to remain. A friend of the court brief
In a 6-3 decision whose outcome was opposed in advance by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other church groups, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that existing federal law that bans job discrimination based on “sex” includes gay and transgender persons.
In his latest column, contributing editor Russell Shaw reflects on what German theologian Romano Guardini would have said in response to our current crisis. In short, there is a moral dimension of our national trauma. He writes: “In this year without a
In a report for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw asks, “With America gradually reopening in the wake of pandemic-induced shutdowns, will everything revert to being as it was before, as many people hope, or will this painful experience prove to
In the last of a 12-part series on the life of Christ, Russell Shaw covers the Last Supper discourse, the seizure of Jesus and his trial, his crucifixion, death, Resurrection and Ascension. He summarizes: “The Gospels give relatively brief accounts of the
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw defends home-schooling families against recent criticisms, writing that parents “knew very well what they were doing and had excellent reasons for doing it.” Some of these reasons include “reinforcing parent-child
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that while the coronavirus pandemic is cause for concern, people fretting about the end times — and the rest of us, too — would do well to focus on
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that he has been bombarded by advertisements about safety and security during this coronavirus pandemic, but, he says, the Gospels tell us to take a deeper view of security than