The District Court judge said the school employee’s case did not stand up to the principle of ministerial exception that protects a religious school’s hiring and firing practices from government intrusion.
Court: Catholic school has right to hire staff who uphold church doctrine
‘Life and Dignity for All’ is theme of USCCB’s Religious Freedom Week
The observance opens June 22, the feast day of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, both English martyrs who fought religious persecution.
USCCB novena prays for religious liberty ahead of Christ the King feast
The U.S. bishops have urged Catholics to pray a novena for religious liberty in the nine days leading up to the feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday of Ordinary Time, which this year is Nov. 21.
Bishops call attacks on U.S. Catholic sites ‘acts of hate’ that must stop
The Oct. 10 vandalization of Denver’s cathedral basilica that resulted in satanic and other “hateful graffiti” being scrawled on its doors and at least one statue brought to 100 the number of incidents of arson, vandalism and other destruction that have taken place at Catholic sites across the United States since May 2020.
Court’s new term to look at abortion, death penalty, religious liberty
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term, starting Oct. 4, returns to its standard routine: hearing arguments in person and taking on hot-button issues.
Ruling blocking HHS ‘transgender mandate’ called ‘victory for conscience’
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.”
Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case
In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia’s foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.
‘Solidarity in Freedom’ is theme of USCCB Religious Freedom Week June 22-29
Resources for the week from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are available on a designated webpage.