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The Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision and Religious Freedom

It’s a sad fact that Americans have gotten so used to judicial activists on the Supreme Court that we get angry when someone like Chief Justice John Roberts refuses to be one. Don’t get me wrong — I, too, desperately hoped Obamacare would … Continue reading

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The Religious Freedom Issue Is As Alive — And More Important– Than Ever

What does today’s Supreme Court decision mean for the federal lawsuits and the Fortnight for Freedom and religious freedom rallies that have drawn attention to the HHS mandate’s assault on religious freedom? 1. Today’s decision upheld the constitutionality of the Patient … Continue reading

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AS WE URGED LAST WINTER: THE CHURCH ACTS AGAINST DISSIDENT NUN GROUP — WATCH AMERICA’S HOLY, YOUNG GROWING COMMUNITIES OF SISTERS GROW EVEN FASTER NOW!

The Holy Spirit is working overtime these days! On  February 26, this website exposed a dissident, aging organization that claims to speak for American nuns: the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). Its member communities include many with so little Catholic identity that … Continue reading

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First Things First: Pray to End the HHS Mandate

By Ray Noble Americans are focused right now on paying bills, finding jobs and getting their taxes filed. We also get mad about “those incompetents in Washington” and worry about the debt and the deficit. Oh yes… Iran and Afghanistan look bad, too. What … Continue reading

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Marginalization of Religious Liberty: Mary Ann Glendon Sounds the Warning

Prof. Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard University Law School. In the following article from the current America Magazine, Professor Glendon examines ongoing and unprecedented government assaults on religious liberty. At  the federal level, these include the NLRB’s recent, unsuccessful challenge to the right … Continue reading

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Rally for Religious Freedom Across America

In major cities across America there will be a noon-time rally on March 23 against the government’s demand for people to reject their consciences. People of widely divergent religious beliefs (even including amicus briefs by Hindus, Sikhs, animists, Hara Krishnas etc. as well … Continue reading

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Masterful Confrontation: The Unprecedented Threat to Religious Liberty

The Jesuits’ America Magazine (which still calls itself “the national Catholic weekly”) published an editorial   http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13277   chiding the bishops. Bishop Lori’s reply follows. Responding to the gravest threat to religious liberty in American history, this statement may long be remembered for its urgency, … Continue reading

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Why The Catholic Church Will Not Comply

In the following article from Catholic World Report, a professor of moral theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Ohio  discusses why the Catholic Church must refuse to comply with the HHS contraception/abortifacient/sterilization health insurance mandate:  From Catholic World Report: … Continue reading

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