RFI President Thomas Farr recently joined The Weekend Answer radio show to offer his perspective on the meaning and significance of last month’s Second Ministerial to Advance

Religious Freedom. The whole point of this [Ministerial] is to build international consensus about what began as a uniquely American idea back in the late 1990s…That [...]

A week in which, after serious reflection, we decided not to make an offer for Greenland… The UN and religious persecution 22 August marked the first International Day Commemorating

the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, established by a resolution of the UN General Assembly earlier in the year. [...]

The chairmen of three U.S. bishops’ committees Aug. 21 welcomed a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor aimed at clarifying religious protections that may be invoked

by federal contractors, including faith-based organizations. “Faith-based groups should have the opportunity to compete on a level playing field as they seek to [...]

Here’s an entry that is not centrally about religion, but about constitutional theory, though it would have important implications for the interpretation of the Religion

Clauses. Judicial restraint once was one of the chief objectives of interpretive theories like originalism. [...]

Over at First Things, George Weigel has these comments about the recent (split) decision affirming the sex-abuse conviction of Cardinal George Pell.  I realize there are

those who claim that skepticism about the fairness of the proceedings against Cardinal Pell simply reflects ideological or ecclesiological agreement with him, but [...]

The recently-decided case Re St Andrew’s Chinnor [2019] ECC Oxf 4 concerns a petition which sought permission for the introduction of a ‘desk type’ ledger stone in the

churchyard, contrary to the wishes of the incumbent and PCC. The outline of the case is summarized below, but the area of interest is the approach of the Deputy Chancellor, [...]

Richard Rorty was a famous and influential American philosopher of pragmatism some of whose ideas were adopted and applied by prominent pragmatic legal thinkers like Richard

Posner. One of the phrases for which Rorty is known is that religion is a “conversation stopper”–the sort of appeal to authority for any social or moral question [...]

Christ Church, Oxford, has published the following statement concerning a complaint raised in September 2018 against the Dean, The Very Revd. Professor Martyn Percy. Also below

is a statement from the Bishop of Oxford. [...]

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, has issued the following statement on behalf of the EU on the occasion

of the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief: [...]