New coalition aims to end capital punishment as executions increase but public support wanes December 3, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and waning public support for the practice during comments at a Dec. 3 press event announcing a new coalition called the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Supreme Court weighs appeal from New Jersey faith-based pregnancy centers December 2, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on Dec. 2 heard oral arguments in an appeal from a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey challenging an investigation by that state’s attorney general alleging they misled people about their services and seeking information about their donors.
Supreme Court declines Kim Davis case seeking to overturn same-sex marriage ruling November 10, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court declined Nov. 10 a case that asked it to revisit its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The 2015 ruling overturned state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, a decision the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops at the time called a “tragic error.”
Supreme Court sides with Trump administration to temporarily block full funding for SNAP November 10, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. Supreme Court has moved to temporarily block full payments necessary to fund SNAP, a program providing food support to millions of Americans with low incomes, after the Trump administration asked the court to hear its request to issue only partial payments in November.
Economists express concern about the poor as Supreme Court weighs Trump’s tariffs November 6, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News As the U.S. Supreme Court considered President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff policy, economists raised concerns about the potential impact of that policy on the poor.
Wisconsin religious exemption upheld for Catholic Charities now back in court October 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the state’s high court to consider invalidating a key religious exemption to the state’s unemployment program that has been used by faith-based organizations across Wisconsin and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
An important civics lesson, well taught October 8, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Supreme Court, The Catholic Difference What I find most impressive in Justice Barrett’s book, however, is not its depth of knowledge or its readability but its tacit display of public service lived vocationally: not as a matter of career enhancement, not as a means of acquiring wealth, and certainly not as performance art.
Justices hear faith-driven free speech challenge to Colorado conversion therapy ban October 7, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional counseling services that practice “conversion therapy” for minors, efforts intended to change a minor’s gender identity that differs from the young person’s biological sex or to change their sexual orientation.
Man arrested outside Washington cathedral ahead of Red Mass found to have explosives October 7, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Court documents show that a New Jersey man arrested Oct. 5 outside of St. Matthew’s Cathedral just hours before the start of the annual Red Mass had a “fully functional” arsenal of explosives that he threatened to detonate.
Supreme Court begins fall term amid split in public opinion on its work October 6, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court began its fall term Oct. 6, with cases on its docket that include legal battles over some of President Donald Trump’s policies and use of executive authority.
Men, women in the law can be ‘architects of hope’ to nation, cardinal says at Red Mass October 6, 2025By Mark Zimmermann Catholic Standard Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News At the Red Mass celebrated on the day before the Supreme Court’s new term, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy emphasized that “men and women of the law are architects of hope by reason of their vocation.”
Clarence Thomas discusses originalism and Catholicism in CUA law event September 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discussed topics including originalism and his own Catholic faith during remarks Sept. 25 at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.
