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January 31, 2019

India's Supreme Court rejects bail for nun held seven months, not charged

Indian police stand outside the premises of the Missionaries of Charity home in Ranchi, where Sister Concilia was arrested July 5, 2018, on suspicion of child trafficking. On Jan. 29 the Indian Supreme Court rejected bail for the nun, who has not yet been charged.
NEW DELHI – India's Supreme Court rejected bail for a Missionaries of Charity nun arrested nearly seven months ago on suspicion of child trafficking.
Published in International
December 6, 2018

Peter Stockland: Where do we stand with our rule of law?

Bubble zone street signs cite Bill 163 outside abortion clinics in Ottawa.

Last summer, Ottawa constitutional lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos and I were on Ottawa’s Sparks Street when we encountered a sign warning we were entering an abortion safe-access zone.

Published in Register Columnists
November 1, 2018

Asia Bibi's release sets legal precedent in Pakistan

Father Robert McCulloch, procurator general of the Missionary Society of St. Columban, attends a seminar on safeguarding children in Rome in this March 23, 2017, file photo. Father McCulloch was involved in negotiations with Pakistani officials to obtain the release of Asia Bibi, a Catholic who was acquitted of blasphemy on Oct. 31 by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
SYDNEY – Asia Bibi has been released from death row and prison in Pakistan and is now under heavy protective guard in a secret location with her family, reported a longtime Catholic missionary involved with negotiations in Pakistan about her case.
Published in International
October 11, 2018

The Mustard Seed: God’s reign is ultimate reality

Christine Blasey Ford, with lawyer Debra S. Katz, left, answers questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. Ford testified about an accusation that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982.

It is said that significant numbers of Catholics have left the Church over the clergy sexual abuse crisis and the ensuing coverup. I cannot verify this since I do not know any Catholics who have made that decision. Nor have I read any news articles which quoted people who have left the Church or which provided analysis showing the emigration of disaffected Catholics.

Published in Register Columnists
October 11, 2018

U.K. court upholds bakers' right to refuse making same-sex themed cake

Daniel and Amy McArthur, owners of Ashers bakery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, leave the Supreme Court in London Oct. 10. The court upheld their right to refuse to make a cake emblazoned with a slogan in support of same-sex marriage.
MANCHESTER, England – The United Kingdom's Supreme Court has upheld the right of a bakery to refuse to make a cake emblazoned with a slogan in support of same-sex marriage.
Published in International
October 4, 2018

Charles Lewis: Alabama needs to fight for Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments monument was removed from the Alabama state judicial building in 2003.

The State of Alabama has had a controversial relationship with the Ten Commandments. Not so much its teachings but its physical representation.

Published in Register Columnists
August 29, 2018

Trinity Western law school plans on hold

Trinity Western law students stand outside Canada's Supreme Court.

OTTAWA – Trinity Western University’s decision to drop its mandatory community covenant has left religious freedom advocates wondering how it will impact the future of their cause. 

Published in Canada
July 30, 2018

U.S. bishops announce nine-week novena ahead of Supreme Court confirmation

Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, are among President Donald Trump's potential nominees to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Both Kavanaugh and Barrett are Catholic.
WASHINGTON – A Novena for the Legal Protection of Human Life is being led by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Catholics are being encouraged to take part ahead of the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Published in International
July 19, 2018

Charles Lewis: Don’t expect Roe v. Wade debate to end

Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic, who is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, smiles July 9 at the White House in Washington after President Donald Trump named him his Supreme Court nominee.

You could almost hear the champagne corks popping below the border when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation. 

Published in Register Columnists
July 11, 2018

Trump picks Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court nominee

Brett Kavanaugh, a Catholic, who is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, smiles July 9 at the White House in Washington after President Donald Trump named him his Supreme Court nominee.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced July 9 that his nominee for the Supreme Court is Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge in Washington and a Catholic who once clerked for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Published in International
July 4, 2018

Glen Argan: Building Canadian paradise requires faith

The Supreme Court’s TWU ruling met with much protest.

Several years ago, a friend who had immigrated from the former Soviet Union told me, “Canada is the greatest place on Earth. It is a paradise.” While I felt flattered on behalf of my country to hear those words, I also wondered what in our country made him so effusive.

Published in Register Columnists
June 21, 2018

Peter Stockland: There’s a silver lining in the Trinity Western decision

Peter Stockland: There’s a silver lining in the Trinity Western decision

Anyone looking for hope from the June 15 Supreme Court of Canada decision on Trinity Western University can find it shining in the pages of the judgment itself.

Published in Register Columnists
June 15, 2018

Supreme Court decision on Trinity Western delivers severe blow to religious freedom, say advocates

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled it "reasonable" to limit religious freedom to ensure equal access for LGBTQ law students to the legal profession.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada’s decisions on Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school have delivered a severe blow to religious freedom, say advocates.

Published in Canada
June 5, 2018

Supreme court ruling a boost for religious freedom

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that courts have no authority to decide on religious group rules May 31.
OTTAWA – Courts have no place in deciding a religious group’s rules, the Supreme Court said in a unanimous judgment May 31.
Published in Canada
December 5, 2017

Religious freedom ‘on an abyss of revolutionary change', lawyers warn

Trinity Western lawyers and interveners pose in front of the bench at the Supreme Court of Canada after the Nov. 30-Dec.1 hearings in this important religious freedom case.
OTTAWA – Religious freedom in Canada is facing a “watershed moment” and may be “on an abyss of a revolutionary change,” argued lawyers in a Supreme Court of Canada case involving a Christian university’s proposed law school.
Published in Canada
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