Just hours before being elevated to Cardinal, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan addressed the College of Cardinals and offered seven pointers on evangelization for reflection.
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The
National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) issued a powerful statement today listing its objections to the imposition of the HHS mandate on religious employers, saying the president actually made no "accommodation" at all to the mandate last Friday, nor is there any truth to oft-repeated claims that "a number of states" already have such mandates in place.
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In spite of media claims that a majority of Americans support President Obama's new HHS mandate "accommodation," some their own polls show that public sentiment is against the intrusive law.
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Father Denis Wilde, OSA, associate director of Priests for Life, was among six people arrested yesterday while peacefully protesting the HHS mandate outside the White House.
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A February 15 publication of the Catholic Health Association's Catholic World Health carried an
article from Sr. Carol Keehan expressing profound disappointment upon learning that the definition of a religious employer was not broadened to include her hospitals.
Unfortunately, we have learned that this letter was written prior to the announcement of President Obama's "accommodation." Apparently, the print version of the CHA publication "didn't get the memo" that Sr. Keehan had changed her mind and was now backing the mandate.
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After being cited by the White House and numerous press outlets as being a supporter of the Obama Administration's HHS mandate "accommodation," Catholic Charities USA says they have been mischaracterized by the media and are not in support of the mandate.
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Sister Carol Keehan, the infamous head of the Catholic Health Association who came out in support of the president's HHS mandate "accommodation" has apparently read the fine print and realized Catholic hospitals gained nothing in the "compromise" and is now expressing her "profound disappointment" with it.
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Fifty years after leaving Hollywood to become a cloistered Benedictine nun, Mother Dolores Hart, who co-starred with Elvis Presley in 11 movies, will appear at the Academy Awards next Sunday - in her habit.
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Fallout from the controversial HHS mandate continues as the president's job approval plummets among Catholics and an ever widening coalition forms with a variety of public protests planned for across the country.
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Two Catholic governors oversaw the passage of same-sex marriage laws by legislative fiat in their states this week, and another is on the verge of seeing a similar bill pass, but the way the three responded could not have been more dissimilar.
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