The Conscience Project

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer urges Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and the state's Catholic bishops to find a balance without compromising conscience, school choice, and Church autonomy.

Florida’s Catholic School Vaccine Fight Doesn’t Need a Winner and a Loser COMMENTARY: Florida can respect the bishops’ authority over Catholic schools while preserving a workable path for parents with vaccine objections.

Jessica Bates, an Oregon mother, was told she could not adopt because of her religious beliefs. Now, after a legal battle, she has finally been approved to reapply for her license to adopt.

Oregon mother is free to adopt after winning legal battle over gender-ideology mandate ADF attorneys represent Jessica Bates in favorable settlement of three-year long lawsuit against Oregon officials

“The Constitution doesn’t let government dangle a public benefit, then ask families to choose between taking it and keeping their faith.”

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer explores St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy and what’s at stake as the case heads to the Supreme Court in The Daily Wire.

Colorado Keeps Waging War On Religious Freedom. Now It’s Attacking Preschools. Preschool is no place to teach three- and four-year-olds to choose their own gender, but in Colorado, families choosing schools that share this belief are denied the state funding that all other families receive.“I don’t subscribe to this ideology of choosing a child’s gender,” one father sa...

After three years of litigation, Jessica Bates’ adoption license has finally been reinstated. This is a major victory for foster children.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko have faced a very different reality, going nearly two years without being able to speak to their daughter because of gender ideology.

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer discusses the challenges these families are facing in The Christian Post.

The tide is turning on gender ideology, but some parents are still paying the price A presumption built into our social-work system does not disappear entirely once a regulation is rescinded

A Virginia court case exposes a troubling question: Who gets to decide whether someone’s religious objection is sincere, the believer or a hospital committee?

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer explains how religious liberty belongs to an individual, not a denomination’s checklist, in The Daily Signal.

Whose Conscience Counts in Virginia? Anthony Fauci privately told colleagues the COVID-19 vaccine “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

NEW: “A city honoring its police officers and firefighters with the patron saints those men and women have invoked for generations is not establishing a religion."

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer responds to Massachusetts’ latest ruling and warns against the growing effort to scrub religious references from public life in The Federalist.

Massachusetts Court: Town Can't Build Statues Of Christian Heroes The Supreme Judicial Court blocked Quincy, Massachusetts, from installing two bronze statues of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian.

"Suggesting that medieval saints anticipated and endorsed transgender ideology sits in direct tension with the guidance of the Church’s own shepherds."

Director Andrea Picciotti-Bayer and Mary Rice Hasson respond to the National Catholic Reporter’s promotion of “Transgender History Month” and “trans saints” in Catholic World Report.

Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints” Why Catholics should reject the month and myth of “trangendered Saints”“Transgender” identification is a politicized phenomenon, not something the Church has ever encountered, much less celebrated, in the lives of men and women it has raised to the altars. August 27, 2026 Mary Rice Hasson, A...