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A Time to Learn
Is our most cherished freedom truly under threat?
Sadly, it is. This is not a theological or legal dispute without real world consequences. Consider the following:
• HHS mandate for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. The mandate of the Department of Health and Human Services has received wide attention and has been ...
Religious Liberty Is More Than Freedom of Worship
Religious liberty is not only about our ability to go to Mass on Sunday or pray the Rosary at home. It is about whether we can make our contribution to the common good of all Americans. Can we do the good works our faith calls us to do, without having to compromise that very same faith? Without ...
Six Things Everyone Should Know About the HHS Mandate
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offers the following clarifications regarding the Health and Human Services regulations on mandatory coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
1. The mandate does not exempt Catholic charities, schools, universities, or ...
Frequently asked questions
Why does the mandate to cover contraceptives, including abortion-causing drugs and sterilization,violate religious liberty?
In short, it is the element of government coercion against conscience, and government intrusion into the ordering of Church institutions. As Archbishop William Lori of ...
US Bishops Support 'Conscience Act'
The Catholic bishops of the United States have long supported the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act.” (S. 1467) The Respect for Rights of Conscience Act states that the new lists of mandated benefits for private health plans created under Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...
Is The Respect for Rights of Conscience Act Overbroad?
The Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (S. 1467, H.R. 1179; henceforth “the Conscience Act” or “the Act”) has been accused of greatly expanding the unilateral power of employers to delete almost any service from health plans: Not only could Catholics be exempt from birth ...
Questions about Religious Liberty
What do we mean by religious liberty? Religious liberty is the first liberty granted to us by God and protected in the First Amendment to our Constitution. It includes more than our ability to go to Mass on Sunday or pray the Rosary at home. It also encompasses our ability to contribute freely to ...
What did our early American leaders say about religious freedom?
· George Washington: "If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to ...
Who have been heroes of religious liberty in the church?
· Saint Thomas More: Thomas More was an English Catholic lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor and a close advisor to King Henry VIII. More opposed the king’s separation from the Catholic Church and his naming himself as Supreme Head of the Church of England. More was imprisoned for his ...