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What role for abortion issue in Election 2012?

By Russell Shaw. While the economic crisis is taking center stage in voters’ minds, the pro-life movement is gaining steam

U.S. Supreme Court watches presidential election

Russell Shaw Next president will have opportunity to reshape fragile, divided court

U.S. Supreme Court watches presidential election

By Russell Shaw. Next president will have opportunity to reshape fragile, divided court

Three Supreme Court cases to watch

By OSV Staff. Court watchers will keep a close eye on new justice to see how she comes down on controversial cases.

Supreme vetting process

By Russell Shaw. U.S. Senate owes it to the nation to question Sotomayor's little-known judicial philosophy

Supreme Court weighs same-sex marriage cases

By Russell Shaw. Justices to issue rulings on Proposition 8, Defense of Marriage Act by the time the term ends in June

School-choice advocates cheer Supreme Court ruling in Arizona case

By Brian Fraga. Experts expect ripple effect around country from high court ruling on Arizona tax credit program. Subscription required

Scares over justice's health highlight Supreme court shift

By Russell Shaw. Though most impact will be long-term, change in court could affect a raft of social issues

Same-sex marriage cases headed to Supreme Court

By Russell Shaw. Two high-profile appeals, along with other events, reflect growing conflict over marriage’s definition

Russell Shaw: Are social issues just a distraction to court?

By Russell Shaw. ‘Hot-button social issues’ such as abortion deserve to have a place on the Supreme Court’s agenda

Round-up: Supreme Court decisions

By Jessica Emmert. The Affordable Care Act wasn’t the only thing the Supreme Court ruled on

Revisiting Roe

By Mark Rienzi. Where in the Constitution did the Supreme Court find the right to destroy unborn human beings? (Subscription required)

Religious liberty advocates watch court case

By Brian Fraga. Experts weigh the impact on conscience protections if U.S. Supreme Court strikes down part or all of the health care law

Pro-life: issues defeated, candidates elected

The impact of recent elections may reach past Congress and into the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pro-life prospects tied to results in November

This article has free access for all visitors.The deadlock between Republican president and Democratic Congress has stalled legislation and judicial nominations

This article free to registered users. The successful legal challenge to Roe v. Wade must be a work of judicial craftsmanship and wholly the work of the legal mind: the lawyer who will prepare and present the case. By Clifford Stevens

OSV Letters to the Editor

Reader feedback on sports, vocations, same-sex marriage and Pope Francis.

Openers: Violent video games make kids violent. Or do they really?

By John Norton. The very question of violent video games and children was taken up last month by the U.S. Supreme Court

Msgr. Owen F. Campion: Dignity of unborn

We who are pro-life must promote right to life for all, and not leave matter to the states to decide. Subscription required

Makeup of the bench

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. Choice of Sotomayor continues a trend of giving a seat to an emerging political faction

Long-awaited test

By Russell Shaw. The Supreme Court’s ruling on ‘Obamacare’ has far-reaching impact for the Catholic Church, too

Life is paramount

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. Chief justice’s epiphany over civil rights should give us hope that abortion laws will be overturned

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor for October 26, 2008

Lethal-injection case puts moral issue on table

Catholics should not want Supreme Court to be arbiter of our country's moral justice

Influencing the Court

Some justices still need to be educated that the unborn deserve an equal right to life

God Lives Column: How Catholics came to be majority on Supreme Court

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. How Catholics went from having one seat to filling up a majority of the Supreme Court’s bench

Gift of religious liberty

By Teresa Tomeo. Scripture readings make clear that we shouldn’t take our freedoms for granted but be prepared to fight

Editorial: Fundamental flaws

‘The Supreme Court decision neither diminishes the moral imperative to ensure decent health care for all, nor eliminates the need to correct the [Affordable Care Act’s] fundamental flaws.’

Christmas combatants

By Robert P. Lockwood. Secularists, in an attempt to eradicate all things Christmas-related, have gone to absurd extremes

Changing attitudes

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. Let's pray public opinion on abortion evolves in the same way it has on racism in America

Catholics react to Supreme Court decision

By Russell Shaw. The 5-4 ruling in favor of Affordable Care Act does not affect lawsuits against HHS mandate

Catholic Journal Column: No Protestant justices?

By Robert P. Lockwood. Elena Kagan’s confirmation would remake the Supreme Court — but not end anti-Catholic bigotry

Balance of Supreme Court may change abortion law

By Russell Shaw. Majority positions unquestionably shifted by recent selection of Justices Roberts and Alito.

Are we seeing the beginning of religious persecution in America?

By Russell Shaw. Catholic Church agencies are closing their doors under new laws, policies gutting conscience rights

Anyone's guess

Key Supreme Court decisions made in the past seven years could be reversed depending on whom the next president picks for the bench

Abortion elephant

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The strategy robs the country of any sort of substantive discussion of abortion.

A question for Kagan

By Russell Shaw. What does she think of natural law? Answer would tell much about state of jurisprudence these days