• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to footer
Catholic Review

Catholic Review

Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore

Menu
  • Home
  • News
        • Local News
        • World News
        • Vatican News
        • Obituaries
        • Featured Video
        • En Español
        • Sports News
        • Official Clergy Assignments
        • Schools News
  • Commentary
        • Contributors
          • Question Corner
          • George Weigel
          • Elizabeth Scalia
          • Michael R. Heinlein
          • Effie Caldarola
          • Guest Commentary
        • CR Columnists
          • Archbishop William E. Lori
          • Rita Buettner
          • Christopher Gunty
          • George Matysek Jr.
          • Mark Viviano
          • Father Joseph Breighner
          • Father Collin Poston
          • Robyn Barberry
          • Hanael Bianchi
          • Amen Columns
  • Entertainment
        • Events
        • Movie & Television Reviews
        • Arts & Culture
        • Books
        • Recipes
  • About Us
        • Contact Us
        • Our History
        • Meet Our Staff
        • Photos to own
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • CR Media platforms
        • Electronic Edition
  • Advertising
  • Shop
        • Purchase Photos
        • Books/CDs/Prayer Cards
        • Magazine Subscriptions
        • Archdiocesan Directory
  • CR Radio
        • CR Radio
        • Protagonistas de Fe
  • News Tips
  • Subscribe

Religious Freedom

Institute launches national committee aiming to protect religious freedom

January 19, 2022
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Charging that religious practice is increasingly threatened by legal maneuvering and public actions that seek to limit the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious rights, speakers during an online launch of the National Committee for Religious Freedom Jan. 18 called on Americans to join the effort.

Supreme Court takes up former football coach’s firing for praying on field

January 18, 2022
By Carol Zimmermann
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The Supreme Court announced Jan. 14 that it would hear an appeal from a former high school football coach in Washington state who says his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was fired in 2015 for praying on the football field after team games.

Report IDs five European nations with increasing anti-Christian violence

December 9, 2021
By Simon Caldwell
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Catholics are facing soaring levels of discrimination in some of the most influential countries in Europe, a new report said.

Religious freedom commission welcomes U.S. diplomatic boycott of Olympics

December 7, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Olympics, Religious Freedom, Sports, World News

The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing sends “a strong and unequivocal message” to the Chinese government that its persecution of religious minorities will not be tolerated, said the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Court rejects Catholic hospital’s appeal of transgender patient’s lawsuit

November 3, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News

The Supreme Court Nov. 1 turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a transgender patient.

Seal of confession a topic of debate after French abuse report

October 15, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Church and government leaders in France are at odds over whether priests should be required to report the abuse of minors if they learn about it in the sacrament of confession.

Catholic Medical Association joins lawsuit over HHS ‘transgender mandate’

August 27, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

The Philadelphia-based Catholic Medical Association Aug. 26 joined in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures on any patient despite any moral or medical objections of the doctor or health care facility.

Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech

August 21, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.

Federal judge sides with Catholic school over guidance counselor’s firing

August 12, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A federal judge sided with an Indianapolis archdiocesan high school and the Indianapolis Archdiocese in a lawsuit filed against them by a former guidance counselor whose contract was not renewed because of her same-sex marriage.

Ruling blocking HHS ‘transgender mandate’ called ‘victory for conscience’

August 11, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A U.S. District Court judge’s Aug. 9 ruling to block the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures despite their own moral or medical objections is “a victory for common sense, conscience and sound medicine.”

Anderson: Like worship, Christian witness is essential to religious liberty

August 10, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A top concern for Carl Anderson, the now-retired CEO of the Knights of Columbus, is preserving religious freedom in this country.

Bishops say Spain trying to ‘dismantle the Christian worldview’

July 30, 2021
By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Spain’s Catholic bishops warned of growing division and tension in their country over government attempts to “deconstruct and dismantle the Christian worldview.”

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 18
  • Page 19
  • Page 20
  • Page 21
  • Page 22
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 25
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Our Vision

Real Life. Real Faith. 

Catholic Review Media communicates the Gospel and its impact on people’s lives in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond.

Our Mission

Catholic Review Media provides intergenerational communications that inform, teach, inspire and engage Catholics and all of good will in the mission of Christ through diverse forms of media.

Contact

Catholic Review
320 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
443-524-3150
mail@CatholicReview.org

 

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Recent

  • Christ is not absent from Gaza, but crucified in the wounded, patriarchs say after visit
  • Construction underway on new north addition to St. Joseph’s Nursing Home 
  • Prince of Peace merges with St. Francis de Sales in Harford County
  • A Miracle for a Baby in Rhode Island (and for all of us)
  • Syrian Christian leaders say Islamist government can’t protect them or Druze
  • Kidnapped Nigerian priest who served in Alaska freed
  • Archbishop Wenski leads Knights on Bikes to pray rosary at Alligator Alcatraz
  • Poland’s government clashes with bishops over migration remarks while cardinal urges a shift in language
  • Patriarch’s visit hailed ‘a miracle,’ while parishioners in Gaza feel horror, desperation

Search

Membership

Catholic Media Assocation

Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association

The Associated Church Press

© 2025 CATHOLIC REVIEW MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

en Englishes Spanish
en en