Religious Liberty

April 16, 2019

As Notre Dame burns, France called to re-set world ablaze

Like most big stories, the world discovered last night’s fire devouring Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral at breakneck speed on social media. Images and video reached billions within a few minutes, nearly as fast as the dramatic flames took to completely engulf the ancient roof and send its tallest spire hurdling into a billowing smoky abyss. Continue Reading...

April 10, 2019

Religious liberty defenders must be ‘light sleepers’

Last week in Rome, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Callista Gingrich invited think tank leaders, journalists, and human rights advocates to the private colloquium “Stand Together to Defend International Religious Freedom.” Continue Reading...

March 21, 2019

The ‘true politics’ of the gospel: An imprisoned Chinese pastor’s sermon on peace and freedom

In response to the explosive growth of Christianity in China, the country’s communist authorities have ramped up efforts to curb the trend—imprisoning Christians, shutting down churches and schools, and moving to release their own state-sanitized revision of the Bible. Continue Reading...

March 20, 2019

Why do pastors receive a tax exemption for housing?

A federal court of appeals recently upheld the constitutionality of the ministerial housing allowance. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled unanimously that the sixty-five year old tax provision does not violate the First Amendment clause that prohibits government establishment of religion. Continue Reading...

March 18, 2019

China rewrites the Bible

It’s no secret that as the Chinese economy enters a slowdown, the Chinese government has been taking an ever-more authoritarian approach towards virtually every aspect of life in the People’s Republic. Continue Reading...

March 15, 2019

What did the Christchurch mosque shooter believe? Inside the mind of a collectivist killer

As Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, a shooter livestreamed himself entering the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and killing 41 people with a semiautomatic weapon. He then drove to the Masjid mosque in nearby Linwood, where seven more have died. Continue Reading...

March 05, 2019

80% of the globe is ‘religious restricted’: UN hearing

Freedom of religion is denied in much of the world, according to the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom. And a United Nations committee of NGOs dedicated to religious liberty has called the UN to protect the most fundamental freedom. Continue Reading...

February 22, 2019

Catholic hospital can’t fire doctor for violating morality: Court

The Roman Catholic Church cannot hold its employees accountable if they break their contractual obligation to live by the Church’s teachings, a German court has ruled. In an Orwellian twist, the court ruled that firing a baptized Catholic from a Catholic institution for violating Catholic teachings constitutes religious discrimination. Continue Reading...

January 25, 2019

St. Philip Neri on the Covington Catholic boys

The sinister and irreparable nature of gossip is memorably illustrated in the penance St. Philip Neri once gave to a woman who had confessed it to him. He told her to walk through the streets of Rome plucking a chicken. Continue Reading...

January 22, 2019

Why the media lynched the Covington kids (and why they’ll do it again)

No one following the news could have missed the media’s misguided hysteria over students from Covington Catholic High School allegedly surrounding and taunting an American Indian activist. However, not only was the erroneous feeding frenzy – which included incitement to violence against minors – predictable, but its repetition is inevitable. Continue Reading...

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