In May, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul directed the Division of Criminal Justice Services to coordinate $10 million in funding for "safety and security capital grants for abortion providers and reproductive health centers to further secure their facilities and ensure the safety of patients and staff." No abortion clinics have been firebombed in New York State [...]
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are both self-described "devout Catholics." Given the rash of attacks on Catholics and Catholic Churches, it would be reasonable to expect that they would condemn these acts of anti-Catholicism. Yet neither has said a word. It is not as though they are indifferent to bigotry—they are quick to [...]
A memo issued in May by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on abortion protesters warned that in the wake of the leak of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortion rights extremists "on both sides" merit scrutiny. Bill Donohue responded by saying, "There is no evidence upon which this unwarranted accusation can be [...]
Fr. Virgil Blum, who founded the Catholic League in 1973, must be looking down from heaven with a smile: the paramount issue for him was school choice. On June 21, that movement took a big step forward. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it is unconstitutional for Maine to provide public funds for private schools [...]
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to affirm the religious rights of a football coach who prayed after the game on the field. This was an important victory for religious liberty, as well as for freedom of speech. For seven years, Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy prayed after a game on the 50-yard line. No [...]
In 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized abortion in its Roe v. Wade decision, Catholics were nearly alone in their opposition to it. There were some elements in the Lutheran Church, and in the Orthodox Jewish community, who opposed it, but most Protestants and Jews supported the ruling. As a major religious group, Catholics were the [...]
A Wall Street Journal/NORC (WSJ) survey found that 68% of Americans believe that Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion, should not be overturned. Yet a Rasmussen survey of American voters found that only 5% believe abortion should be legal in all cases, with no restrictions whatsoever. How to explain the apparent contradiction? The Rasmussen survey was [...]
