The commandments must be the central focus of the display, according to the law, and the display must include a statement about the history of the Ten Commandments in American public education.

The Catholic Church adopts the same attitude, Schneider said. "We primarily use the Ten Commandments as an examination of conscience. They are general precepts and they don't really define ...

He recalled the incident in 1859 when 11-year-old Thomas Wall, a young Catholic student, refused to recite the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments and had his hands beaten.

Abbott signed legislation mandating Ten Commandments displays in school classrooms despite the threat of litigation.

One of those new laws requires that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, but the law is similar to one from Kentucky that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 1980.

Texas lawmakers are close to passing a bill to require public schools to exhibit the Ten Commandments in classrooms starting this fall, a victory for the religious right that critics say blurs the ...

If the bill passes into law, Texas would become the largest state to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, joining its neighbor Louisiana, which passed a similar law last year ...

The Supreme Court has rebuffed these efforts before, but that was nearly a half-century ago. Today’s MAGA conservatives see a more favorable legal environment—and they might be right.

Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would make the state the nation’s largest to ...

A push to require the Ten Commandments be displayed in all Texas public school classrooms is closer to becoming law. Legal challenges are expected.

FILE - This 5-foot tall stone slab bearing the Ten Commandments stands near the Capitol in Austin, Texas, in this July 29, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) ...

FILE - This 5-foot tall stone slab bearing the Ten Commandments stands near the Capitol in Austin, Texas, in this July 29, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File) (Harry Cabluck, AP2002) ...