The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused on Jan. 20 to broaden the exception to its mandate that nearly all Catholic employers must cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their healthcare plans.
The president recently told 3,000 attendees at the National Prayer Breakfast, “We know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can’t dictate our response to every challenge we face.”
As a former police officer I know there is one phrase in the criminal justice system that virtually everyone is familiar with: “Innocent until proven guilty.
There is something intriguing and, at the same time, troubling about the upheaval being created by the Obama administration’s dictate regarding religious institutions and the right of conscience.
It has always been a bit curious to me that government officials, as well as high-placed, influential members of the media elite, cannot ignore the temptation to criticize or demean people of faith.
My daughter, mother of six boys, recently said to me, “It is so hard to keep our kids safe these days, whether we are at a playground or shopping.
I have read with interest the thunderous proclamations of sanctimonious outrage from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in response to Obama’s order that conscience protection does not apply to his mandatory birth control coverage in health insurance plans.
Planned Parenthood’s wicked tentacles continue to appear in the most remarkable places.
In 1971, when addressing abortion, Jesse Jackson said: “Those advocates of taking life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder; they call it abortion.
The politically approved scientific use of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) for research and experimentation has plagued our quest for recognition of intrinsic human rights ever since the first such experiment became public in 1993.
Sometimes an event will literally rock the earth beneath me. One such incident came to my attention recently by way of Jill Stanek—the pro-life movement’s number one commentator.
There are people in our culture of death who consider pro-lifers to be far RIGHT.