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Lawsuit: CVS wrongly fired Christian employee for objections to abortifacients, contraception

January 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver, Colo., Jan 17, 2023 / 07:50 am (CNA).
A Christian nurse practitioner has filed a federal lawsuit against CVS Health, charging that a CVS pharmacy wrongly fired her from her job after it ended her longtime accommodati… […]

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Debate over whether ‘morning-after pill’ can cause abortion at heart of Catholic nurse’s lawsuit

September 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Paige Casey had provided medical care for patients at CVS MinuteClinic Diagnostic of Virginia from 2018 until March 2022, when she was informed that she could no longer claim a religious exemption in order to opt out of a practice that violated … […]

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Catholic schools’ free lunch funds jeopardized by Biden LGBT rule change

August 10, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 10, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Catholic school leaders need to be aware that their schools could be cut off from the federal government’s free and subsidized lunch program if their policies don’t c… […]

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The latest on Sister Dede: D.C. has given her a religious exemption from vaccination mandate

March 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington D.C., Mar 18, 2022 / 13:05 pm (CNA).
Sister Deirdre Byrne, perhaps better known as “Sister Dede,” says that Washington, D.C. officials have accepted her religious exemption to the C… […]

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Catholic doctor takes up cause for natural immunity against vaccine mandates

October 15, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 17

Doctor Aaron Kheriaty will soon be suspended without pay from his post as a professor of psychiatry in the University of California-Irvine’s School of Medicine. He has been threatened with being fired for his refusal […]

The Dispatch

COVID vaccines: Spokane bishop supports conscience rights, but says priests won’t provide religious exemption

August 24, 2021 Catholic News Agency 18

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane.

Spokane, Wash., Aug 24, 2021 / 03:00 am (CNA).
After Washington state announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for school employees, the Bishop of Spokane said that conscience rights should be respected, but that pries… […]

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South Dakota bishops support conscientious, religious exemptions from Covid vaccine mandates

August 11, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

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Sioux Falls, S.D., Aug 11, 2021 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
In response to questions from Catholics about COVID-19 vaccine mandates being imposed by employers or other authorities, the bishops of South Dakota said this week that Ca… […]

The Dispatch

Bishops in Colorado back conscientious exemption for coronavirus vaccines

August 6, 2021 Catholic News Agency 6

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Denver, Colo., Aug 6, 2021 / 16:27 pm (CNA).
The Catholic bishops in Colorado have emphasized the need to respect those with conscientious objections to the COVID-19 vaccines and have provided a template letter for any Ca… […]

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