The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 13 agreed to hear a case from the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, in which the agency argued a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court discounted its religious identity.
The United States is overdue for a serious conversation not just about possible changes to the Supreme Court, but also about the functioning of our entire system of government.
President Joe Biden proposed a constitutional amendment regulating presidential immunity and structural changes to the Supreme Court, in response to a court ruling granting sweeping immunity to Donald Trump.
“Policies that criminalize homelessness are a direct contradiction of our call to shelter those experiencing homelessness and care for those in need,” said Archbishop Borys Gudziak said.
The Supreme Court has allowed Idaho doctors to perform abortions for women facing medical emergencies while a lower court considers the constitutionality of the state's near-total ban.
What is needed, far more than a perfect abortion law, is a clear focus on the moral failure of a society in which abortion rates are rising rather than falling, in which too many women feel afraid, unable or unwilling to carry pregnancies to term and welcome new life into the world.