In an age of hypersexuality, the Catholic Church is battling fundamental and legal persecution daily
On June 22, Catholics around the world will remember Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, the bishop and chancellor executed by Henry VIII two weeks apart in 1535 for the crime of refusing to acknowledge the religious supremacy of the king of
The marketplace, not elected officials, should decide whether a company should open an outlet in a particular location, said San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller.
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (CNS) — On Ash Wednesday, William McLeod, a fourth-grade student at Valley View Elementary School in Bountiful, was told by his teacher to remove the ash cross he had received at church that morning. It was, she said later, a
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Violating religious freedom harms not only the individuals being persecuted, it also damages communities and often opens the door to further violence, a Vatican representative said. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, also
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court seemed to lean toward preserving a historic cross-shaped memorial in Maryland Feb. 27 without making overall clarifications about the constitutionality of religious symbols on public property. The justices heard oral arguments about a 93-year-old cross
BLADENSBURG, Md. (CNS) — The day before the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments about a cement memorial cross in a grassy median strip in an intersection of a Washington suburb, there was no fanfare at the cross itself. Although there was
PHOENIX (CNS) — Despite its prominence in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, “the gift of religious freedom” runs “the risk of being taken for granted, the head of the U.S. bishops’ religious liberty committee told members of Arizona’s legal profession and
Will a 94-year-old cross-shaped memorial honoring servicemen who died in World War I be the vehicle for a Supreme Court decision that affirms a more realistic interpretation of the Constitution’s ban on a governmental “establishment” of religion? That question will move a
The Knights of Columbus have been in the news lately. I can’t even begin to tell you what this organization has done in my life, but I’ll begin to try. It’s the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization, and while I’m obviously not