By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 28, 2024 / 14:10 pm The U.S. bishops strongly condemned the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in a pivotal homelessness case, calling the court’s decision “a direct contradiction of our call to shelter those experiencing homelessness and care for those in need.” In the 6-3 …

By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 27, 2024 / 12:10 pm After mistakenly leaking the decision before releasing the final ruling, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Idaho hospitals must perform abortions in certain emergencies. The 6-3 decision, issued in Moyle v. United States, means that Idaho hospitals are compelled to perform …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 15, 2024 / 18:45 pm The United States Supreme Court awarded Idaho emergency relief that will allow the state to enforce its ban on doctors performing sex-change operations on children and providing them with sex-change drugs. In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the Supreme …

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Jan 16, 2024 / 15:30 pm A Supreme Court case being argued this week could have significant implications for a decade-long religious liberty battle fought by the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in Loper Bright Enterprises, Inc. …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 12, 2023 / 08:45 am President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court ruling that ordered the Food and Drug Administration to put up safeguards that would regulate the use of an abortion pill. The …

By Kevin J. Jones Denver, Colo., Aug 23, 2023 / 15:49 pm The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a federal law that allows people under domestic restraining orders to be banned from carrying firearms, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said in an amicus brief in a pending U.S. Supreme …

WASHINGTON – Bishop Joseph N. Perry, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and chairman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, issued on June 29: …

by Edie Heipel Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 28, 2022 / 16:45 pm Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito — author of the deciding opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade — stressed the importance of his Catholic faith to serving on the highest court in the country Tuesday in a lecture to …

By Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 27, 2022 / 08:43 am The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday in favor of a high school football coach in a First Amendment case concerning his right to pray on the field. Both sides of the case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, argued that the case …

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Jun 24, 2022 / 13:55 pm In a Friday press conference, U.S. President Joe Biden called on Congress to codify abortion access into federal law, following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade that morning. The court’s decision returned the question of abortion policy to the …