“Returning to Minsk, I was not allowed in at the Kuznica-Bialystok border crossing,” Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev told the Catholic Information Agency, KAI, in neighboring Poland Aug. 31.
Religious Freedom
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After another priest is killed in El Salvador, local clergy ask ‘who will be next?’
A Catholic priest was found dead in El Salvador on Aug. 7, the most recent in a pattern of Salvadoran clergy killings over the past half century.
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Democrats plan interfaith service to kick off convention
Democrats plan to kick off their party convention next week with an interfaith service that officials say is designed to represent diverse faith communities and further the party’s theme that its presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, will “restore the soul of America.”
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What Catholic social teaching says about property rights
A response to Mike Pompeo’s human rights commission
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Nicaraguan bishops denounce Managua cathedral arson attack as ‘terrorism’
A still-unidentified assailant entered the cathedral’s Blood of Christ chapel and threw an explosive device. Flames engulfed the chapel, severely charring a 382-year old image of the crucified Christ.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The government can’t intervene, so how should Catholics solve employment disputes?
The ministerial exception gives Catholics the freedom to self-govern—not an excuse for discrimination
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Why you shouldn’t dismiss Mike Pompeo’s report on human rights
Critics warned Secretary Pompeo’s religious freedom agenda would reverse 200 years of progress on human rights. But his commission has issued a consensus document.
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French police suspect arson was cause of fire at Nantes cathedral
Although more than 100 firefighters contained the blaze within two hours and stopped it from spreading to the main body of the church, a 17th-century choir organ at the west end of the building was destroyed with much of the choir area and multiple stained-glass windows.
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How we got here: The saga of the Little Sisters of the Poor and the birth control mandate
Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion is a decisive win for religious rights advocates, but it may not be the last chapter in this story.
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The ministerial exception is good law—but no excuse for indiscriminate firing by Catholics
The editors of America have weighed in on these cases in previous editorials, which offer some helpful perspective.