Court offers limited ruling on cake case

In its new decision involving religious liberty and same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a win to religious liberty, but the victory is a very limited one that leaves the future far from clear. The court ruled 7-2 on June 4

Editorial: Grasping the Gospel

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, upholding the religious freedom claim of a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, may have been decided by a failure to grasp what

Secular coercion

In his much-discussed indictment of secularized liberal democracy, Polish philosopher and sometime government minister Ryszard Legutko writes bitingly of the powerful and coercive “demon” he so abhors. Toward the end of “The Demon in Democracy” (Encounter Books, $23.99), he describes the problem

Why do so many people hate the Catholic Church?

As the controversy over President Barack Obama administration’s January directive to religious institutions to pay for employees’ contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs was heating up, Michael Gerson — a conservative columnist frequently friendly to the Church’s views — speculated on the reasoning

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