On June 27th, the final day of its 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most significant rulings ever in favor of parents’ rights to direct the educational upbringing of their children. […]
On June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court restored a measure of sanity in the debate over transitioning minors. In United States v. Skrmetti the Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, […]
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court rendered a major victory for religious freedom in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. In a unanimous judgment authored by Justice Sotomayor, with concurrences by […]
On May 27, 2027, the Supreme Court, over dissents by Justices Thomas and Alito, refused to hear an appeal after public school officials suppressed student speech with which they disagreed. The Court was unwilling to review the First Circuit’s […]
On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a succinct, one-sentence order ending the litigation over whether Oklahoma could fund St. Isidore of Seville as the nation’s first virtual faith-based charter school under the direction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese […]
As noted in Catholic World Report, on May 2, 2025, Washington’s Democrat Governor Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5375, “An ACT Relating to the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect” into law. A putative Catholic, […]
On February 18, 2025, in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, the First Circuit undermined parental God-given rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The court instead upheld the authority of educators in Massachusetts, who, acting […]
On March 11, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar this fall, The case challenges a Colorado law infringing on the free speech rights of a licensed Christian counselor who provided “conversion therapy” […]
For the second time in less than a year, another federal trial court judge in Colorado upheld religious freedom in education. On February 24, 2025, in Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy, Judge Daniel D. Domenico permanently enjoined […]
As issues involving sexuality increasingly encroach on daily activities, including in schools, controversies increase over the messages educators allow students to communicate defending what are now euphemistically referred to as “traditional values.” In a recent […]
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