The “Catholic vote” is never a sure thing. Politicians have learned that Catholics are not a unified voice nor a unified voting block–too bad. If we Catholics voted according to the teachings of the Church, we could bring about enormous good for our nation. Read the rest…
Tag Archives: HHS mandate
Bishops Cite Inaccuracies at Vice Presidential Debate
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is criticizing Vice President Joe Biden for inaccurate statements he made about the HHS mandate during last week’s vice presidential debate.
Last Chance to Rally for Religious Freedom Before Election
October 20 is the date set for protests in 140 cities across the U.S. where tens of thousands of Americans will remind the public of the grave infringement of religious freedom occurring under the Obama Administration, particularly in ObamaCare and the HHS mandate.
White House Touts New Birth Control Study
In an effort to bolster their case for forcing taxpayers to provide free birth control to women, the White House is touting a new study that says birth control lowers both abortion and teen pregnancy rates, even though these results directly conflict with a host of larger studies.
An Urgent Call… “For Such A Time As This”
Our nation is in the midst of its own “Battle of Lepanto.” Our temporal order – the institutions and enterprises of man, his culture and his society – has been infiltrated by an anti-life, anti-Gospel, anti-Church agenda. The “final confrontation” intimated by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla when he addressed the United States Bishops in 1976 seems to have arrived. From Cairo and the Middle East, to Congress and the Senate, to the attack against the union of one man and one woman in marriage, to the proliferation of the morally reprehensible, to the efforts of Planned Parenthood and sex education in our schools, we see the frontal attack of the “Agenda of the Anti-.“ As Women of Grace® “impregnated with the spirit of the gospel” we must respond. Read the rest…
Judges Take Up HHS Mandate in Court
Oral arguments were presented in a Detroit courtroom last week in a motion to stop the implementation of the controversial birth control mandate, while a judge in Missouri dismissed a similar suit on grounds that it did not substantially burden a Catholic businessman’s right to the free exercise of his religion.
Bioethics Center Advises Non-Exempt Catholic Employers to Drop Health Insurance
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) has published guidelines for Catholic employers who are struggling to navigate the moral implications of the Obama Administration’s birth control mandate, advising some business that it is more morally licit to drop the insurance than to obey the law.
HHS Mandate Allows 15 Year-Olds to be Sterilized Without Parental Consent
Although most of the fire directed against the Obama Administration’s birth control mandate concerns its blatant infringement of religious freedom, this rule also allows people as young as 15 to be sterilized without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Religious Freedom Dies Today
The controversial birth control mandate which will force religious employers to provide insurance for services that violate their beliefs takes effect today, an event that many are calling the death of religious freedom in America.
Judge Grants Reprieve to Catholic Business
A U.S. District Court in Colorado granted an injunction to a Catholic-owned business that halts the August 1 implementation of the controversial HHS mandate pending further review of the firm’s lawsuit.
