This is Religious Freedom Week, during which America's Catholic bishops call on us to pray, reflect and act to promote religious freedom. But it’s also a time to give thanks. As Catholics, we can look ...

Wednesday was National Religious Freedom Day — a fitting opportunity for Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, to ask the Senate to “unanimously reaffirm our oath of office to a Constitution that rejects ...

With Kim Davis and representatives of the Little Sisters of the Poor both trotted out as as GOP guests at President Obama’s state of the union speech, it’s clear that “religious freedom” is here to ...

The chairmen of the U.S. bishops' committees on international policy and religious liberty are calling attention to the repression and persecution of religion as being detrimental to peace. "Religious ...

Religious freedom, Congress unanimously declared in 1998, “undergirds the very origin and existence of the United States.” Presidents of both parties have called it a “fundamental human right,” a ...

Pope Leo XIV talks to pilgrims and visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 22, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than ...