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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.
Analysis

The battle for religious liberty in education rages on in Maine

June 25, 2023 Charles J. Russo 5

The battle for religious liberty in education rages on. This important fight continues even though the Supreme Court, in opinions (three in the past six years) by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, invalidated laws limiting […]

The Dispatch

Denial of OK family planning aid highlights hypocrisy of “Catholic” Biden

June 12, 2023 Charles J. Russo 13

The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in late May, denied $4.5 million in funding to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) for family planning services because state law protects the […]

The Dispatch

Suit filed by Christian college aimed at HUD policies undermining sexual distinctions

June 5, 2023 Charles J. Russo 18

The Biden administration, through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has announced rules in the form of a Directive that may threaten the College of the Ozarks in Missouri and other institutions grounded […]

Analysis

“The child is not the mere creature of the state…”

May 29, 2023 Charles J. Russo 4

In 1925, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names Jesus and Mary, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the right of parents in Oregon to have their children educated where they wished. Officials […]

The Dispatch

“My body, my choice,” vaccination mandates, and religious freedom

May 20, 2023 Charles J. Russo 25

On May 15, 2023, the Ninth Circuit, in Keene v. City and County of San Francisco, in a ruling that may signal a return to some semblance of normalcy in the post-COVID-19 world, reversed a […]

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 […]

The Dispatch

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 […]

The Dispatch

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 […]

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