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30 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
It is the only document of its kind in the United States and did more to educate the public about Catholic abuse and cover up than all of the bishops’ statements on the issue combined. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 1:37 pm by Karen T. Willitts, Esq.
 However, before his current visit to the United States, the Pope announced plans to make it easier for divorced couples to obtain annulments in the Catholic Church. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 7:00 am
  The facility is governed by religious rules called the Ethical and Religious Directives, which are written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and that classify common reproductive health procedures as "intrinsically evil. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 12:45 pm
However, the hospital where Rachel is scheduled for delivery is part of a Catholic hospital system, and operates under binding “ethical and religious directives” issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, (WD MI, June 30, 2015), plaintiff sued for negligence claiming that policies promulgated by the U.S. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 6:40 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), called the ruling “a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us, especially children. [read post]
14 May 2015, 2:30 pm
Five others, along with EMM, operate under the aegis of major American religious denominations: the Church World Service (an umbrella organization), the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the evangelically connected World Relief Corporation.So let us draw the big picture: civil war breaks out in Muslim countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria; the… [read post]
12 May 2015, 3:02 am by Immigration Prof
Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan to Transform the US Immigrant Detention System by Migration and Refugee Services/ United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Center for Migration Studies, Journal on Migration and Human Security Executive Summary Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan... [read post]
3 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The United States Catholic bishops also rail against contraception, though with few results, as the polls indicate. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 1:29 pm by Amy Howe
Conference of Catholic Bishops and an advocacy group founded by Mike Huckabee, which support the states that seek to uphold bans on same-sex marriage. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
In response, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of the groups that received a government-funded contract to provide care to these teens, said any requirement that they provide information about contraception or abortion, even a referral or the arrangement for such services, would violate their religious freedom. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 9:33 am by Matthew Harwood
Currently, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops receives millions of dollars from the federal government to provide care to the surge of children and teenagers who have crossed the U.S. border alone, often fleeing torture and abuse in their home countries. [read post]
Currently, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops receives millions of dollars from the federal government to provide care to the surge of children and teenagers who have crossed the U.S. border alone, often fleeing torture and abuse in their home countries. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 9:28 am
Kirkpatrick at the United Nations, speechwriter for Secretary of State George Schultz, and managing editor at The Public Interest. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Preliminary details of Pope Francis' itinerary during his September visit to the United States are becoming known. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 6:30 pm by Howard Friedman
In many cases, the proponents of legal abortion are the very people who have worked with Catholics to realize the goals of social justice set out in papal encyclicals: the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, B'nai B'rith Women, the Women of the Episcopal Church. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 5:22 am by Guest Blogger
But if too-big-to-fail firms keep growing bigger, assured of state support, while everything else the government does is deemed contingent: what kind of social contract is that? [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The General Counsel to the United States Catholic Conference at the time, Mark Chopko, testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary a year before RFRA was first enacted in 1993 that the bishops were concerned that RFRA might “be used to promote access to abortion. [read post]
Jane Phillips Medical Center is just one of an increasing number of Catholic-sponsored facilities where standards of reproductive care are compromised by a requirement to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 6:30 am by Howard Friedman
The brief, filed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; National Association of Evangelicals; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; and Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod argues:Undermining the husband-wife marital institution by redefining it to include same-sex couples will, in the long term, harm vital child-welfare interests that only the… [read post]