Given the dressing down which Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots gave MLAs recently over their attire, maybe one of the knock-on ...

The bill asks the priest to choose between criminal penalties or giving up his lifelong vocation. And that’s the type of activity that the First Amendment is designed to protect against.” ...

Washington lawmakers are once again tackling the sensitive issue of mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect by clergy members.

A push to require clergy to report child abuse is back. This time, Democratic lawmakers might not be willing to compromise on ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the ...

Maine's highest court has shot down a 2021 law that removed the statute of limitations for civil claims of child sex abuse. Maine lawmakers approved a bill in 2021 that removed the statute of ...

The Roberts Court’s slash-and-burn approach to the separation of church and state is unlikely to end any time soon.

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... clergy and sponsors scholarships. In his comments, Cudjoe noted that the Emancipation Proclamation had a significant impact in this country. The ...

Donald Trump began his presidency with a dizzying display of force, signing a blizzard of executive orders that signaled his ...

Learn about George C. Thilenius, a German immigrant and key figure in Missouri's 1865 Constitutional Convention. Discover his ...

Kevin Butterfield is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Constitution is remarkably ...

Under the new democratic Constitution, market economy principles, multiple forms of property ownership, pluralist ideology, and individual freedom were all acknowledged in pursuit of forming a humane, ...