Charles Russo

1 week ago | us2.campaign-archive.com | Amy Welborn |Larry Chapp |Charles Russo |Conor Dugan

My unplanned week in Rome for a papal election By Amy Welborn on May 08, 2025 07:32 pmA week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming.

3 weeks ago | catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson

(Image: Wesley Tingey / Unsplash.com)On February 18, 2025, in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, the First Circuit undermined parental God-given rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The court instead upheld the authority of educators in Massachusetts, who, acting pursuant to an unwritten protocol of their school committee (as boards are called there), withheld information from parents that their sixth-grade daughter wanted to be identified by a male name and pronouns at school.

1 month ago | catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson

The front façade of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC.(Image: Ian Hutchinson/Unsplash.com)On March 11, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar this fall, The case challenges a Colorado law infringing on the free speech rights of a licensed Christian counselor who provided “conversion therapy” for minors confused about their gender identities. Given Chiles’ potential impact on free speech and, ultimately, on religious freedom, this column reviews its history.

2 months ago | catholicworldreport.com | Charles Russo |Carl Olson

Officials in MA ban t-shirt stating “There Are only Two Genders”At its heart, L.M. v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts evidences a clash of values, or as alluded to in Tinker, rights and whose will prevail.

2 months ago | us2.campaign-archive.com | Matthew Becklo |Charles Russo |Sean Fitzpatrick |George Weigel

The zero-sum crisis and the paradoxical solution By Matthew Becklo on Mar 13, 2025 02:58 pmTwo recent editorials in The New York Times—one by Damien Cave and one by Amanda  Taub—argue that “zero-sum game” thinking is on the rise in American geopolitics. In a zero-sum game, like tic-tac-toe or chess, one person’s gain is Read in browser » Vatican could be close to decision in Rupnik case, report says By Catholic News Agency on Mar 13, 2025 10:50 amFather Marko Rupnik.