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Religious Freedom

High school juniors, seniors invited to enter USCCB religious liberty essay

March 11, 2023
By Our Sunday Visitor
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty, along with the USCCB Secretariat of Catholic Education and the Our Sunday Visitor Institute, is hosting a religious liberty essay contest for high school juniors and seniors.

Supreme Court to consider whether employers who make Christians work Sunday violate religious liberty

March 6, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to consider a case April 18 that could have broad implications for employees seeking religious accommodations from their employers.

‘Bear witness to the truth’ on Religious Freedom Day, cardinal says

January 16, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

The U.S. Catholic bishops marked Religious Freedom Day Jan. 16 by encouraging Catholics engaged in public life to examine their consciences and heed the late Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis in prioritizing truth and reason.

Biden cites faith, proclaiming U.S. must ‘preserve, protect’ religious freedom

January 15, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Like his five most recent predecessors, President Joe Biden has issued a proclamation declaring Jan. 16 Religious Freedom Day and calling for the protection of religious freedom in the U.S. and around the globe.

U.S. religious liberty expert ‘disappointed’ in Vatican-China deal

January 13, 2023
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News

The United States’ chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his “disappointment” in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.

Federal judge rules Baltimore-based CRS must pay health benefits for spouse of gay employee

August 19, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom

A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency, must offer health care coverage to the spouses of gay employees as long as the employees’ jobs are nonreligious in nature.

Principal calls vandalism at Catholic school in Washington ‘a hate crime’

August 15, 2022
By Richard Szczepanowski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News

St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling “a hate crime.”

Archbishop Lori among bishops saying HHS proposal violates religious freedom and ‘is bad medicine’

July 28, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

The chairmen of four U.S. bishops committees said July 27 that proposed regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on abortion, transgender services and other procedures threaten the Catholic Church’s ability “to carry out our healing ministries” and others’ ability “to practice medicine.”

China deploys hundreds of auditors to monitor religious activities online

July 6, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to expand its apparatus to monitor and curb religious activities in cyberspace through training and deploying hundreds of “auditors” across the country, triggering concerns from rights groups.

Supreme Court sides with coach in public school prayer case

June 27, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

In a 6-3 vote June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that a former high school football coach had the right to pray on the football field after games because his prayers were private speech and did not represent the public school’s endorsement of religion.

Supreme Court says Christian group can fly flag at City Hall

May 9, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

After the Supreme Court ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group to fly its flag at City Hall, another group, The Satanic Temple, has requested permission to fly a flag outside the city building.

Court seems to side with football coach over postgame prayers

April 26, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The majority of Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a former high school football coach April 25 who said his postgame prayers on the field — that cost him his job — amounted to private speech and not the public school’s endorsement of religion.

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