WASHINGTON (OSV News) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 in favor of a Christian web designer who argued she had a First Amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages despite a Colorado law prohibiting discrimination against people who identify as LGBTQ+.
In a 6-3 decision split down the court s ideological lines, justices found the First Amendment protects Lorie Smith, a website designer who said her Christian faith requires her to decline customers seeking wedding-
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Forty years since the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl who mysteriously vanished at the age of 15, Pope Francis publicly expressed his closeness to her family. In these days, the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi occurred, the pope told some 20,000 visitors gathered in St. Peter s Square for the recitation of the Angelus June 25. I wish to take advantage of this occasion to express once again my closeness to the members of
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi will go to Moscow on the second leg of a peace mission on behalf of Pope Francis, the Vatican said.
The cardinal, president of the Italian bishops conference, was scheduled to travel to Moscow June 28 and 29 accompanied by an official by the Vatican Secretariat of State, the Vatican press office said June 27. The principal aim of the initiative is to encourage humanitarian gestures that may contribute to favoring a solution to the tragic cu
WASHINGTON (OSV News) Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, as coadjutor archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut.
Now-Archbishop Coyne, who turned 65 June 17, has headed the statewide Burlington Diocese since his installation Jan. 29, 2015. Before that, he was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis from 2011 to 2015.
He will serve alongside Archbishop Leonard P. Blair, 74, who has served as Hartford s fifth archbishop since he was install
WASHINGTON (OSV News) Sheila and David Porter left their home in Newport News, Virginia, at 5 a.m. to celebrate the first anniversary of the Supreme Court s landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Washington June 24.
Together, the couple attended the 2023 National Celebrate Life Day rally held by national pro-life groups on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The event commemorated the court s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization that overturned Roe, which legalized abo