Supreme Court

Gender on Trial

by Russell Shaw on January 25, 2013 · 0 comments

Defenders of traditional marriage may not believe it, but the Supreme Court’s apparent intention to decide two important same-sex marriage cases by midyear may be a stroke of good fortune for their side.
This timing means the Supreme Court’s first…

“Members of this court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments.  Those decisions are entrusted to our nation’s leaders, who can be thrown out of office…

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Within an hour of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama-care, I got an email from LifeNews.com. “The Supreme Court has … [upheld] the Obamacare law that pro-life groups regard as the biggest expansion of abortion and…

Editor’s note: Although the following is a homily given on the recent Feast of St. John the Baptist’s Nativity, the staff of Catholic Exchange agreed that on account of its stirring call to all Catholics to stand up for religious…

Religious Liberty: Our Birthright

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. June 26, 2012

Editor’s Note: the following address was given to Catholic journalists by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on June 20th, 2012, originally entitled “Launching the Fortnight For Freedom.”
I’ve known Greg Erlandson as a friend for many…

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The Court and Broadcast Pornography

by Russell Shaw March 26, 2012

Reading about two free speech cases now before the Supreme Court, I found myself thinking of Cardinal Newman. I’ll get to Cardinal Newman in a minute, but first let me say a word about those cases pending in the court.…

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