Just a few days after a nationwide CBS/New York Times poll found that 57 percent of Americans believe there should be exceptions for employers who have moral objections to providing health insurance plans that cover […]
Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, North Dakota has reported that during his recent ad limina visit to Rome, Pope Benedict XVI expressed approval of the order in which children in that diocese receive the sacraments […]
Yesterday the international group of hackers known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the Vatican’s website for several hours. The group – which was behind cyber-attacks earlier this year on the US Department of […]
A court in Iran has ordered the death penalty for Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old Christian pastor who is also a married father of two young children. His crime? Leaving Islam and converting to Christianity: Nadarkhani […]
Yesterday a federal judge ruled that Washington State cannot require pharmacists to dispense “emergency contraceptives”—such as Plan B and ella—against their religious convictions. In 2007 the state’s Department of Health and Human Services issued regulations […]
Over at Catholic Vote, Thomas Peters has been compiling an indispensable list of all the US bishops who have released statements in opposition to the Department of Health and Human Services’ contraception mandate. This afternoon […]
Speaking from Rome, where he will be made a cardinal this weekend, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan told the National Catholic Reporter’s John Allen that the US bishops are not “Obama haters” and that he […]
Late today, the USCCB released a second statement on the Obama administration’s “accommodation” regarding mandated insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. The conference’s first statement, released shortly after the president’s announcement this morning, included […]
ABC’s Jake Tapper is reporting that later today the White House will announce an “accommodation” on its mandate requiring employers to offer insurance coverage for contraception. It doesn’t look like the move will be the […]
Marcel LeJeune—who runs the popular Aggie Catholics blog—posted his list of Top 20 Catholic Bloggers of 2011. Included on the list is CWR’s new editor, Carl Olson, for his blogging over at Insight Scoop. Congrats, […]
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