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This summer, Encounter Books will release a new collection of essays on law and morality by Robert P. George (James Madison Program). In our Scholarship Roundup: lawandreligionforum.org/2025/05/01/a-n…

We are excited to post the Mattone Center's annual year-end report for 2024-2025. Among the highlights: a new YouTube channel and animated video series on landmark cases in religious freedom; more Legal Spirits podcasts, the first ever Center Directors Summit; and many more. Read

I’m looking forward to participating later this month (online) in a very interesting conference organized by Professor Adelaide Madera at the University deli Studio di Messina, “Religious Freedom of Minority Groups in Times of Ongoing Crisis.” I’ll be speaking on one of the

I recently discovered the Great Seal of the US over an entrance to a Catholic Church in midtown Manhattan. An illustration of what I tell my seminar students: separation of church and state in the US is a complicated thing.

Washington State just passed a controversial law requiring clergy to report suspected child abuse—even if the information is revealed in a confidential confession. The Catholic Church calls this a violation of religious freedom and a threat to core doctrine. But this isn’t the

"His relationships were not transactional. He treated everyone courteously, including those who could do nothing for him in return." Center Director Mark Movsesian recalls his year clerking for Justice David Souter, who passed away last week.

Congrats to Mattone Center alum Dan Vitagliano, who will clerk at the Supreme Court in October Term 2027!

In this episode of Legal Spirits, we examine a new Washington State law that requires clergy to report suspected child abuse, even if they learn about it through Confession and other confidential spiritual communications—raising serious questions under the Free Exercise Clause.

Tomorrow, ICLARS will host a webinar on comparative approaches to law and religion. Details at the link: lawandreligionforum.org/2025/06/03/icl…

Center Director Mark Movsesian talks with St. John's Law Dean Jelani Jefferson Exum about the Center's new YouTube video series, "Landmark Cases in Religious Freedom": stjohns.edu/news-media/new…

The latest episode of our “Landmark Cases in Religious Freedom” series is now on YouTube, covering West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) and whether the State can compel patriotic speech. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=uUNzvp…

Can the state compel patriotic speech that violates religious conscience? The latest episode of "Landmark Cases in Religious Freedom addresses WV State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943), the flag salute case. Watch it on the Mattone Center for Law & Religion's YouTube channel:

Sobering reading, by someone who knows about Iran. Remember the going out before you enter.

Azerbaijan is funding church restorations and Vatican conferences while erasing Armenian Christian culture at home. In First Things, Center Director Mark Movsesian exposes the Vatican’s troubling entanglement with “caviar diplomacy.” firstthings.com/the-vaticans-d… #Vatican

For the sake of genuine unity between East and West, the Vatican should be more careful that its material partnerships do not obscure its Christian witness. firstthings.com/the-vaticans-d…

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette established crucial precedents for both free speech and religious liberty that courts still grapple with today—including recent controversies over compelled commercial speech. Watch our latest video to learn more about this

Too Mideast for the Right, too Christian for the Left.