Essay: The difference between heroes and martyrs
RUSSELL P JOHNSON, a teaching fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School, explains why it’s wrong to confuse “the memorialisation of victims with the commendation of heroes”…
Facing a conservative turn, US Supreme Court opens new term
Washington DC, USAP The US Supreme Court opens a new term with Republicans on the cusp of realising a dream 50 years in the making, a solid conservative majority that might roll back abortion rights, expand gun rights and shrink the power of government. Eight justices are getting back to work Monday at a most […]
Amy Coney Barrett, controversial Catholic, re-emerges as potential US Supreme Court pick
Washington DC, USRNS Federal appellate Judge Amy Coney Barrett is emerging as a likely nominee to fill the US Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reawakening a debate over Barrett’s views on law and religion. Barrett, a Catholic who once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, was discussed as […]
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at age 87
AP Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, has died at her home in Washington. She was 87. The court says Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. In this 6th February, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader […]