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 ...

COMMENTARY: While challenges in the United States pale in comparison to the violence faced by our Christian brothers and sisters abroad, they remind us that religious freedom requires constant ...

The year has exposed how fragile religious freedom is, even as the faithful strive to survive with courage, hope and community.

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

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 ...

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at ...

Here is an overview of some of the religious freedom developments and news in the United States and abroad in 2025: President Donald Trump established the White House Religious Liberty Commission in ...