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A case percolating through the Florida state court system has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: upend the subversion of parental rights when it comes to...

On May 12, Montana Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation guaranteeing children in the Big Sky State access to religious education. Under the bill, kids across Montana are guaranteed...

The Vatican announced May 19 that Baldassare Cardinal Reina would become the grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. He succeeds...

Regular First Things readers know that the late Father Richard John Neuhaus never tired of arguing that the First Amendment contains not two religion clauses but one: “no establishment”...

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op-ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin...

Can we ever achieve consensus on divisive social issues? The just-concluded session of the Montana Legislature sent Governor Steve Bullock the “Montana Unborn Child Pain and Suffering Prevention Act”...

Threats to religious liberty in recent months in the United States—forcing employers to buy abortifacients, compelling professionals and tradesmen like photographers and bakers to apply their talents to support...

“American Piet ” is considered one of the iconic photographs of 9/11. You’ve seen it: the photo depicts five men , amid the dust and rubble that enveloped the...

Margaret Simon, my sixth grade English teacher and grammar martinet, would have been shocked by this book’s title: What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide. Back in 1970 I...