Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice June 30, becoming the first Black woman in that role.
The ceremony took place at the Supreme Court, after the court finished issuing its final opinions of the 2021-2022 term and
Catholic leaders praised the Supreme Court's June 30 decision that gave the Biden administration the go-ahead to rescind a Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy requiring asylum-seekers at the southwest U.S. border to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings.
The 5-4 decision
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the Conscience Project, examines the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday in which it ruled that a public school assistant football coach was wrongfully fired for praying after
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that she finds herself in an unexpected but happy place — a world in which Roe v. Wade has been overturned: “Thirty hours or so into life after Roe, I walked off a train in Washington, D.C.,
OSV publisher Scott Richert explores the key differences between the Catholic media and secular media — differences that have only been made all too clear in their coverage of recent Supreme Court decision, writing: “When Father John Francis Noll wrote in the
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, legal expert and pro-life advocate Mary Hallan FioRito writes that for the past five decades, even pro-abortion law scholars have criticized the foundation upon with Roe v. Wade stood. FioRito writes that “with almost
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that a high school football coach who lost his job because he knelt on the field following games to say a silent prayer had a constitutional right to pray as he did under the First
A truly pro-life celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to cooperative efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women's rights and motherhood, said an editorial in Vatican News and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
Those efforts should
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor hours after the Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activies, said that with abortion laws returning to the
Two leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn the court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and said it is time for "healing wounds and repairing social divisions" with those who take