On Friday, in a long-awaited decision on a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks in Mississippi, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), signaling an
An official of the New York State Catholic Conference expressed disappointment with a June 23 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturns a century-old law and asserts that there is a constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.
"We are troubled
In a new analysis for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw writes that “while the Supreme Court delivered a stunning victory for human life in rejecting the idea that the Constitution guarantees a right to abortion, the real work only begins
In a major decision in support of religious liberty and parental rights, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a ban in Maine on giving state tuition funds to church-sponsored schools. Writing for a six-justice majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said Maine’s
A man threatening to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's Maryland home June 8, carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties.
The threat against the 57-year-old justice, who has been on the court since 2018, was first
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a 6-3 ruling May 23, the Supreme Court said two Arizona death-row inmates could not present new evidence of ineffective counsel they said they received in state trials during their federal appeals. The inmates have argued that their
Biden administration officials issued a statement against violence May 9 following protests outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices in the Washington area as well as a spate of vandalism and disruptions targeting locales of groups that oppose abortion. Some of
After the Supreme Court ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group to fly its flag at City Hall, another group, The Satanic Temple, has requested permission to fly a flag outside the city building.
The mayor's office of
In his latest column, OSV chaplain Msgr. Owen Campion looks at the recent leak of the Supreme Court’s drafted opinion that could once again allow states to regulate abortion within their borders. Msgr. Campion writes: “In the days ahead, whatever the court
Although many pro-life groups immediately reacted positively to the news that the majority of Supreme Court justices seem set to overturn the court's Roe v. Wade decision, some tempered their reaction with a continued call for more advocacy while others kept a