In recent years, clergy and lay people in the United States have increasingly turned to the church's internal legal system to challenge a bishop's or pastor's decision about even the most workaday issues in Catholic life.
Letters: Response to Philadelphia Catholic school closings
Supreme Court: Religious Groups Given ‘Exception’ to Work Bias Law
Richmond, Va. -- Monk removed as abbey's administrator
Salt Lake City, Utah -- Conference of Bishops pans state immigration laws
U.K. -- Archbishop warns: 'thousands of families' may be hit by new cap on family benefits
Italian priest rings church bells in debt crisis protest
NCR's sister publication, Celebration, has begun posting reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.
