Religion
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Tests show Pope Leo XIV requires no further treatment for lung cancer, the Vatican says
Final tests of tissue removed during the surgery determined the cancer had not spread, according to the pope's personal physician, Dr. Luigi Carbone, and his surgeon, Dr. Stefano Margaritora.
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Fired for refusing COVID jabs and blocked from jobs without mandate, firefighters seek jury trial
Unlike firefighter challenge that Supreme Court just rejected, plaintiffs in Microsoft's home town say they provided "hard facts" that Redmond rejected religious accommodations nowhere near "undue hardship" standard.
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Pope Leo spotted leaving hospital on Saturday
He will appear from the window of his apartment after returning, reports said.
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Remote worker fired for refusing COVID vax receives $200k settlement after feds investigate: lawyers
Arrow Electronics refused her request for a religious accommodation, claiming she lacked "religiosity," at which point the feds got involved, her lawyers say.
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Illinois pauses assisted suicide mandate for Catholic nuns, doctors as Canada's law expands
Deep-blue states struggle in court to compel religious professionals to spout progressive orthodoxy, and federal appeals court set to rule in similar challenge by pro-life pregnancy centers. U.K. diverges from Canada's approach's
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After court loss, Oregon stops blocking Christian widow from adopting over gender identity views
Stipulated order and judgment bans state from denying application based on religious beliefs in favor of traditional marriage and identifying with one's sex, and prohibits transgender language mandate.
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Judges in open mutiny against Supreme Court on parental rights in vaccine, gender policies: petition
Several appeals courts are distorting clear recent precedents against infringing parents' right to direct religious upbringing of children, challenge to West Virginia's idiosyncratic school vaccine mandate says.
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God on trial? Custody decision that bans mother from exposing daughter to Bible headed for SCOTUS
Maine's highest court upholds decision that lets father ban daughter from mother's church, scrutinizing its theology, leadership and how it makes the girl see her father. "Astounding" rejection of First Amendment rights, her lawyer says.
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Christian employers secure immunity against federal gender ideology mandate, but not abortion rule
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission gives up on threatening Christian Employers Alliance for members not using preferred pronouns, sex-specific dress codes and restrooms. "Abortion accommodation" only paused.
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Gender ideology suffers setbacks in counseling and medicine with legal settlements, reopened case
Health system pays fired physician assistant $410,000, introduces religious accommodations to opt out of "gender affirming care," preferred pronouns. Michigan "conversion therapy" law falls and Washington's is back in court.
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New York backs off forcing nuns to participate in assisted suicide as lawsuit proceeds
State agrees to temporary restraining order on law that provides little to no exceptions for religious orders that provide end-of-life care, could threaten their federal funding, after emergency hearing.
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Declining attendance, fewer priests driving Catholic parish closures, consolidations across U.S.
The most severe reductions are happening primarily in the Midwest and Northeast, specifically Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Declining enrollment and financial challenges led to the closing of two New Mexico Catholic schools in June as well.
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Catholic churches in Minnesota ending Sunday Mass, citing low attendance, priest shortage
This will bring the total number of parishes down from 65 to 58, and half the diocese's 32 priests will be eligible to retire over the next decade.