by George Weigel IN HIS JUNE 13 testimony before the National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform, Dr. Thomas Farr of Georgetown’s Berkley Center described the failures of U.S. international religious freedom policy over the past decade and a half and suggested some of the structural reasons for that failure: lack of […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty has urged the House of Representatives to extend long-standing federal conscience protections to the Affordable Care Act’s new coverage mandates for private health plans. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore made the request in a letter to members of the […]
by Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – In a Nov. 4 speech at the University of Notre Dame, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. warned that the “menace to religious liberty is concrete on many fronts” today particularly “within your own homeland.” Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, speaking in South Bend, Ind., at a university-sponsored conference on […]
by Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – Over the past several months, the U.S. Catholic bishops and other religious leaders have urged Americans to defend religious liberty in the United States in the face of what they see as threats to that freedom. And the issue continues to gain momentum as the November election draws near. […]
by Wendy Long While crisscrossing the state in my campaign for the U.S. Senate, I was recently sitting around a table talking with some women. I asked them, “What’s the most important issue facing our nation and our state?” The tears welled up in one woman’s eyes, then spilled down her cheeks. “Wendy, my daughter […]
Religious liberty is facing such grave threats in the United States that Catholics must take immediate and courageous action to defend fundamental values in the public forum and in the privacy of the voting booth, according to speakers at a Sept. 20 forum. Almost 500 people assembled at St. John’s University, Jamaica, heard impassioned calls […]
by Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – The increase of restrictions on religion are up worldwide, and, for the first time, those restrictions increased markedly in the U.S., according to a new Pew report. For the United States, it was the first time in the study’s four-year history that both government restrictions and social hostility were […]
by Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – To the enthusiastic reception of an audience of John Carroll Society members Sept. 10, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan traced the historic origins of U.S. religious freedom in light of a current battle with the government over those rights. Saying that he wanted to “restore the luster” on […]
by Elizabeth Deffner ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) – Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson called the number of attendees at the Knights of Columbus 130th Supreme Convention in Anaheim “a testament to the growth and development” of the international fraternal organization. More than 2,000 Knights from around the world – many of them with their wives and […]
ANTIETAM CREEK, Md. (CNS) – Three days and 30 miles into a 100-mile trek to Baltimore from the tiny central Maryland town of Hancock, Laura Dudich lost count of her blisters. “My foot is covered in Band-Aids right now,” said the 17-year-old parishioner of St. Peter Church in Hancock, pausing briefly July 31 as she […]
