The Department of Health and Human Services is planning to end the authority of its Office of Civil Rights to pursue complaints about violations of religious liberty, Fox News reports. A leaked memo from the department indicated a plan to end the office’s efforts to enforce the terms of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and