It’s Religious Freedom Week. Do you know where your bishops are?

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Jun 24, 2020

We’re now in the middle of the Religious Freedom Week proclaimed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In Virginia, state officials are recruiting informers to report on churches that violate the governor’s emergency orders by not requiring masks.

In New York, the US Department of Justice has found “a troubling preference for certain First Amendment rights over others”—specifically, a willingness to relax emergency rules for liberal demonstrators, while keeping the lid tightly sealed on religious congregations.

On Twitter , Shaun King—a leader of Black Lives Matter, with over 1 million Twitter followers—has announced that all statues depicting Jesus Christ with white European features “should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy.”

Those are some of the immediate threats to religious freedom in the US right now, during Religious Freedom Week. Would you like to hear what the US bishops’ conference has said about those threats?

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