Religious Freedom Week Is a Call to Gratitude and Action
COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV and U.S. leaders alike urge renewed vigilance and thanksgiving as threats to religious freedom persist.
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Providential Feast Days Shine Light on Religious Freedom Week
COMMENTARY: The week’s liturgical calendar features saints who died defying unjust rulers — and feasts that point to the deeper source of true freedom.
Religious Freedom Week and Catholic American Heroes (June 29)
Around the Fourth of July each year Catholics celebrate Religious Freedom Week. The focus this year was church vandalism, blasphemy laws, and religious persecution around the globe. Bishop Kevin Rhoades, head of the US Bishops committee for Religious Liberty joins us. Then we turn to the Unsung Catholic Heroes of the American Revolution with Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen.
Step Into Religious Freedom Week as Proud People of Faith
COMMENTARY: Just as the right to worship is central to religious freedom, so too is the ability to live out the faith in daily lives.
U.S. Bishops Invite Catholics to ‘Pray, Reflect, and Act’ to Promote Religious Freedom
Marking Religious Freedom Week, which begins June 22, the feast day of St. Thomas More and John Fisher, the bishops invited Catholics to reflect on a particular topic related to religious freedom for each day of the week.
U.S. Bishops Urge Prayer During Religious Freedom Week to Combat Abortion, Church Vandalism
The USCCB says that despite disagreement, religious freedom, as well as free speech, entitles each human to live in an environment of peace, not violence.
Religious Freedom Week Shines Light on Anti-Catholic Vandalism
The US bishops made church vandalism a prayer intention during Religious Freedom Week, amid a string of damaging attacks on parishes.
Religious Freedom Week 2021 Highlights Church’s Enduring Mission in the US
The U.S. Catholic bishops designated June 22-June 29 as Religious Freedom Week.
US Catholics Urged to Practice ‘Solidarity’ on Religious Freedom
The U.S. bishops’ Religious Freedom Week runs June 22-29.
US Bishops Ask Catholics to Pray for Brownsville Diocese Border Wall Fight
In 2018, the Trump administration informed the diocese that it planned to survey the property where a chapel is located to possibly construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall on the property.
