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3 Feb 2014, 11:30 am by Francisco Macías
  To further clarify my speculation:  Mexico (and previously, New Spain) had always established that the official religion of state was Roman Catholic and swearing is prohibited in the Decalogue. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Taking over the crown at the death of his father (“Pepin the Short”), he protected the papacy, removed the Lombards from power in northern Italy, massacred people who would not convert to Christianity, presided over a renaissance of cultural and intellectual activity within the Catholic Church, and had a number of wives and mistresses. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 1:09 pm by Lyle Denniston
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon gave an order of Roman Catholic nuns some added protection against the enforcement of a part of the Affordable Care Act, and spared them — for now — from having to file a government form in order to be exempt. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 7:43 pm by Lyle Denniston
The first of those cases to reach the Supreme Court involves two groups of Roman Catholic  nuns known as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who run nursing homes in Denver and Baltimore for the elderly poor. [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 2:24 pm by Marty Lederman
Circuit granted an injunction pending appeal by a 2-1 vote (Judges Henderson and Brown, with Judge Tatel dissenting) in the consolidated Priests for Life and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington cases; and the U.S. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 12:28 pm by Elizabeth LaForgia
Monsignor William Lynn, the first senior US Roman Catholic Church official to be found guilty for covering up child sex abuse by a priest, was originally sentenced to three-to-six years in prison in 2012. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The brief asserts that all of the plaintiffs" are nonprofit corporations that were founded upon, adhere to, and strive to further, the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church." [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 3:30 am by Howard Friedman
The government isn’t violating Notre Dame’s right to free exercise of religion by letting it opt out, or by arranging for third party contraception coverage.Rick Garnett comments briefly on the decision at Mirror of Justice.Meanwhile, the D.C. federal district court handed down a much longer (94 pages), more complicated and nuanced decision in Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 7:38 pm by Joy Waltemath
Members of the Kennedy family, all of whom are practicing Roman Catholics, own “a controlling interest” in the two corporate entities, which have 1,500 employees worldwide, including 661 in the U.S. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 10:35 pm
Hunwicke thus far -- and that is all right, because he is now -- may God always bless him -- happily and fully a part of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 5:20 am
Nearly 90% of Croatians are Roman Catholics....Croatia's liberal president Ivo Josipovic said he would vote against amending the constitution." [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 8:50 am by Margaret Wood
  Canon law  is not made by a particular country, but rather is the body of laws made within and for the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 10:00 am by Rich Vetstein
Using this logic, any practicing member of the Roman Catholic Church would be ineligible because of its positions on gay marriage and abortion. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 3:07 pm by Eugene Volokh
Today, magazines and newspapers such as the NRA’s American Rifleman, the Sierra Club’s Sierra, the Knights of Columbus’ Columbia, the United Methodist Church’s Newscope, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland’s The Catholic Voice, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s SCLC Magazine follow this tradition. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 1:03 pm
The law of the Roman Catholic church before reformation, the law of the monarchs, the law of the duke, the customs of the country, the customs of the peculiar place, and the customs of particular ethnic groups within the place. [read post]
8 Nov 2013, 9:50 pm by Lyle Denniston
In the broadest ruling so far by a federal appeals court barring enforcement of the birth-control mandate in the new federal health care law, a divided Seventh Circuit Court panel decided on Friday that two profit-making companies and their Roman Catholic owners are likely to win their constitutional challenges. [read post]
8 Nov 2013, 7:42 am by Howard Friedman
Defendant, a Roman Catholic priest who was charged with having sexual relations with a woman he was counseling, was not likely to be convicted by the jury merely because he violated Church doctrine. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The most obvious was that he was supposedly the brother of Jesus; this contradicted the Catholic doctrine of perpetual virginity for Mary. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 2:08 pm by Steve Delchin
  Autocam is a group of for-profit, secular corporations owned and controlled by members of the Kennedy family who are practicing Roman Catholics. [read post]