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Dome of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. (Photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA) On December 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin  incipit  (opening words) as  Dignitatis Humanae . The Council thereby turbocharged the Catholic Church’s transformation into the world’s premier institutional defender of basic human rights — which the late Sir Michael Howard, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, o

(Photo: Denver Catholic File Photo) By Joshua Karabinos and Dr. Michel Therrien As Americans, we tell ourselves not to talk about two...

Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...