In its language and in its purposes, explicit and implicit, the recently released working document for the upcoming session of the Synod in October, Instrumentum Laboris (IL), is modeled after political and public-opinion concerns and […]
A group of American lay Catholics has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to incorporate statements by Pope Francis into American Constitutional decision-making. On December 5, the Court heard oral arguments in the […]
The first point about the Respect for Marriage Act, the proposed federal law concerning same-sex marriage, sponsored by all Democrat and 12 Republican senators, is its secrecy. Although marriage itself is in precipitous decline, probably […]
On abortion, two revolutions have now happened. The first is the Dobbs decision overturning the invented “constitutional” right to abortion of Roe v. Wade and restoring democracy by returning the issue after fifty years to […]
The two most powerful political figures in the country, probable (mindful that the election has still not been officially declared) President-elect Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are Catholics who oppose religious […]
In Fulton v. Philadelphia, the Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in a case in which the City of Philadelphia cancelled its long-time contract with Catholic Social Services (CSS) of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to […]
In the last two years, abortion as a public issue has changed in at least four ways. First, the formerly abortion-should-be-safe-and-rare Democratic party culminated recent years of expanding its abortion advocacy by establishing abortion as […]
In two cases now before the Supreme Court, the justices are dealing with the constitutional status of a “minister” at a religious school and with the question of who decides the qualifications of a minister: […]
In oral arguments tomorrow in the case of Espinoza v. Montana, the US Supreme Court will hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the latter-19th century’s notoriously anti-Catholic—nowadays anti-religion—“Blaine Amendment,” of which 38 states […]
Catholicism has been in South America for 500 years. Having apparently failed to convert and serve the “indigenous peoples” of the Amazon, who reside in nine of the continent’s thirteen countries, the Catholic Church has […]
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