Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to side with Catholic preschools challenging Colorado’s refusal to exempt them from a nondiscrimination requirement and let them participate in its universal preschool program. The nondiscrimination mandate at the center of the dispute, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, requires participating schools to provide children with…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear a dispute over religious rights when it weighs whether Colorado can exclude Catholic schools from its universal preschool program over their refusal to enroll students from families that don’t adhere to the church’s teachings on marriage and sex. The case, known as St. Mary…
For a few days, France — one of Europe’s most secular countries — looked like it was in the throes of a Catholic revival. An estimated 800,000 people filled the streets for Pope Leo XIV’s outdoor Mass in Paris on Saturday, according to the Vatican. Priests there were seen hearing confessions out in the open,…
Pope Leo XIV criticized the legalization of medically assisted dying, calling it immoral and an example of “false compassion” during a visit on Sunday to Lourdes, the Catholic shrine in France associated with miraculous cures of the sick. “It is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person that we must…
Hundreds of thousands of people packed Paris’ iconic Champs-Élysées Avenue for Pope Leo XIV’s big outdoor Mass on Saturday, a sign of the Catholic Church’s enduring appeal in the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular country. The Vatican estimated that 700,000 people came out for the Mass — more than the 600,000 who had registered…
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Some of the military’s most decorated leaders have either been fired by Hegseth and President Trump or have retired with little explanation, including the…
DISCUSSIONS are happening about how so many of the young protesters that rocked the Modi government recently came from families that have been faithfully voting for the right-wing prime minister. A crucial fact that seems to elude the discussants is that liberal or communist or fascist ideologues are not hatched in hatcheries. Unlike Narendra Modi,…
