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Health and Human Services Investigates Michigan Health Group for Religious Discrimination

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The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which handles enforcement of health care conscience protections, initiated the investigation under conscience protection laws known as the 'Church Amendments,' according to the press release.

HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during his confirmation hearing, said he would investigate conscience rights.

Bishop Barron Responds to Criticism Over Participation in Religious Liberty Commission

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Bishop Robert Barron responded on June 22, 2025, to criticism of a talk he gave at the first meeting of President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission in Washington, D.C.

Bishop Barron encouraged people of faith to enter the public sphere, telling those gathered at the hearing: 'Congress will make no laws preventing it, so let’s invade that space.'

Religious Freedom Week Is a Call to Gratitude and Action

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral stands across Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center.

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV and U.S. leaders alike urge renewed vigilance and thanksgiving as threats to religious freedom persist.

Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops and Priests Gets Underway in Rome

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Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025.

According to the Dicastery for Evangelization, the program, which runs June 23-27, includes prayer, catechesis, concerts, jubilee pilgrimages, Masses, and various meetings with Pope Leo XIV.