However, despite making eleven of the last thirteen appointments, Republican presidents have failed to construct a thoroughly conservative Supreme Court on social and cultural matters. In this essay, I consider how this failure will affect the candidacy of President George W. Bush and expl...
As for the Supreme Court vacancy, O’Brien said many Catholics are praying for Trump to appoint a justice who will “secure laws that are just for all people, especially the unborn.” Barbara Pfarr, a Milwaukee-based nun active in the Nuns on the Bus campaign, has posted criticisms of ...
The Supreme Court is expected to take up a challenge to DOMA later this month and consider whether California's ban on gay marriage should hold. The poll also looked at how American Catholics view the Catholic Church. Adult Catholics, it indicates, think the Church is out of touch with the...
Archbishop Michael Byrnes is calling for unity among Catholics and Christians against the “evil” of abortion ahead of the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. Court observers believe the matter may be decided as early as this coming Tuesday, Guam time. In a pastoral...
The case evenly divided the Supreme Court's justices, who issued a one-sentence decision on Thursday upholding a lower court's ruling to block theCatholicChurch's request.— Zachary Schermele,USA Today, 23 May 2025He was named after his father, Joseph Carmichael Clements, who had been an en...
United States (1879), the Supreme Court held that religious freedom is not absolute if it undermines the common good. Chief Justice Morrison Waite wrote in the Court’s unanimous opinion: Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be...
A national survey of America's black Roman Catholics has disclosed widely held concerns that the church is beset by racism, threatened by the loss of young members and in need of new efforts to involve black members in decisions about church life.
on earth and do not submit to His supreme magisterium…You should remind them to beware of these treacherous enemies of the flock of Christ and their poisoned foods. They should totally shun their religious celebrations, their buildings, and their chairs of pestilence which they have with ...
Kevin C. WalshStanford University, Stanford Law School
After Supreme Court Decisions on Gay Marriage, Next Steps for Catholics (Posted 2013-06-26 18:09:07)Broglio, Timothy P