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About Charles J. Russo
Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D., Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, OH, specializes in issues involving education and the law with a special focus on religious freedom. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University of Australia School of Law, Sydney Campus. He can be reached at crusso1@udayton.edu. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.
The Dispatch

In defense of protecting the seal of confession

May 14, 2023 Charles J. Russo 12

Recent and unprecedented calls for legislative action in Delaware, Vermont, and Washington seek to remove the legal protection afforded Catholic priests under the seal of the confession when mandatory sexual abuse reporting laws are in […]

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Courts uphold Indiana laws requiring proper burial/cremation of aborted babies

May 8, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

Just how hardened are the hearts of supporters of the pro-abortion movement with regard to the destruction and disposal of unborn human life? Consider the Seventh Circuit’s rejection of a challenge—and the Supreme Court’s refusal […]

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Updated: HHS rescinds order to Catholic hospital to extinguish living flame in chapel

May 5, 2023 Charles J. Russo 30

Update (May 5, 2023 | 1:30 EST): Recognizing that the position of the Department of Health and Human Services was indefensible, on Friday May 5 the Biden Administration rescinded its threat to revoke the certification […]

Features

Reflections on ongoing attempts to deny personhood to the unborn

April 29, 2023 Charles J. Russo 36

Putting aside for a moment the theological and medical differences of opinion on the existential question of when life begins, there can be little doubt about the meaning of Jeremiah’s recounting how the word of the […]

Analysis

Do courts or religious leaders decide who qualifies as a minister?

April 20, 2023 Charles J. Russo 4

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), adopted during the height of the Civil rights movement, is the most significant federal anti-discrimination statute addressing employment. In relevant part, Title VII reads […]

Analysis

Free speech for some—but not for Christians?

April 15, 2023 Charles J. Russo 7

Can public school teachers make their faith known in public? As evidenced by a recent incident in Loudoun County, Virginia, controversy and confusion over this point—fueled by educators’ lack of understanding of recent Supreme Court […]

Analysis

On Jessica Bates and the “new orthodoxy”: Can people of faith still adopt?

April 10, 2023 Charles J. Russo 8

Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five children aged ten to seventeen in Oregon whose husband died six years ago in a car accident unsuccessfully attempted “to adopt siblings from foster care,” both of whom […]

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