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-12 posts tagged "religious freedom"
Blake Ziegler | Thursday, September 8, 2022
When the truth is as flexible as rubber, the stability of democracy isn’t far behind. Disinformation is a fundamental threat to the democratic world. Hallmarks of democracy, such as the free and open exchange of ideas and our institutions, rest on the assumption that our society is committed to the pursuit of truth. This is
Maggie Eastland | Friday, September 17, 2021
The Carey Auditorium of Hesburgh Library was filled with students, professors and clergy from the tri-campus community on Thursday evening. They all gathered to hear Myroslav Marynovych, a Ukrainian activist and Gulag survivor, speak on faith, religious freedom and communism. Marynovych spent a decade, from 1977 to 1987, in a Siberian prison camp and in
Vince Mallett | Friday, September 11, 2020
In November, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case concerning a litany of controversial social issues: adoption by same-sex parents, religious discrimination and the role of private religious institutions in public life. The case also provides the Court an opportunity to overturn Employment Division v.
Blake Ziegler | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The difficulties in containing the spread of coronavirus has raised legitimate concerns across the nation. When will this be over? How long until we can return to our jobs or schools? Is social distancing the new norm? Many Americans have turned to faith as a steady rock, and this could not have come at a
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 6, 2020
In a recent Viewpoint piece about Catholic schools and public policy, columnists Jackie O’Brien and Mary Szromba argue a case against school choice that is full of legal errors and misunderstandings. They deal with a First Amendment school choice case, Espinoza v. Montana, which is currently before the Supreme Court. In responding to arguments made
Thomas Murphy | Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and a self-described “Islamic modernist,” gave a lecture titled “Religious Freedom in Islam” on Tuesday at the Eck Visitors Center, during which he promoted religious tolerance throughout the world. Akyol began the lecture by retelling a recent incident between him
Alexandra Muck | Friday, February 2, 2018
Daniel Mark, visiting fellow with the Constitutional Studies Program, called for a defense of religious freedom in the face of global and national threats during a lecture Thursday. “We have before us the underlying question of whether people have the right to choose and live their faith free of interference by the government or whether the
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, February 22, 2017
By now, a wide array of critics of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on refugees — including a passel of United States Catholic bishops — have explained with force and perspicacity how the action amounts to a failure of charity, hospitality and justice. Among the many baneful dimensions of the order is President Trump’s
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 19, 2016
In a Viewpoint column, “Threat to our religious roots,” Eddie Damstra claims every American president since Thomas Jefferson has been a Christian, Abraham Lincoln expressed faith in the Christian scriptures and electing a non-religious president would damage the essence of America, although, he generously concedes, “the election of a non-religious president would not destroy America.” Setting
Gabriel Said Reynolds | Monday, February 8, 2016
Last Thursday night, I had the pleasure of hosting a Dean’s Fellows event at which Reza Aslan, author of “Zealot” and “No God but God,” spoke to a packed house in Jordan Auditorium on the topic of “Islam and ISIS.” When all the seats were filled, people began to sit on stairways, or on ledges, or in