In All Things

One hundred years ago this summer a disgruntled teenager decided to take matters into his own hands and exact revenge for what he felt were numerous injustices perpetrated against him his family his culture and his people by others who were not his own He had plotted for weeks with the assistan

With the Hobby Lobby case over U S Catholic bishops are now holding their breaths to see if the ruling will prove a hollow victory or extend to lawsuits brought by religious non-profits Archbishop Joseph F Naumann of Kansas City Kan a member of the U S bishops Secretariat for Pro-Life Ac

We live in a fallen world Sometimes we Catholics trust our politicians to fix the miseries that surround us but we end up bitter and angry when they let us down Even in the United States where we celebrate the ideals of our political system on July 4 there are chinks in the armor of our m

The U S bishops conference said ldquo justice has prevailed rdquo in its reaction to today rsquo s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties ldquo We welcome the Supreme Court rsquo s decision to recognize that Americans can continue to follow their fait

Today rsquo s Supreme Court decision in Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood case is as big a deal as it seems It is a legal feast for First Amendment scholars treating as it does so many of the sub-issues involved in Free Exercise litigation Plaintiffs were challenging a Department of Health and Human

WASHINGTON RNS The Supreme Court on Monday nbsp June 30 nbsp sided with the evangelical owners of nbsp Hobby Lobby Stores Inc ruling nbsp 5-4 nbsp that the arts-and-crafts chain does not have to offer insurance for types of birth control that conflict with company owners rsquo nbsp religious

The Republic of Haiti for the first time in 215 years has finally instituted a law that bans the enslavement of other human beings Chad has begun taking firm action against the forcing of children into militia groups Switzerland in similar developments had finally closed a legal loophole that

We live in a technological age that poses new challenges to the preaching of Gospel values An American teenager spends perhaps one hour a week in church if at all and many more hours playing video games surfing the Internet using social media watching TV and listening to music on a phone or i

The Working Document WD for next October rsquo s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family provides a clear picture of the real situation of families today nbsp Based on input from the consultation in dioceses across the world it offers a good basis for an open and lively discussion at that