RNS KENNEDY COLLEGE

Kevin Eckstrom | Apr 2, 2012

President Obama speaks with Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, in the Blue Room of the White House prior to signing the health insurance reform bill on March 23, 2010.
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Bishop hopes to restart White House contraception talks

David Gibson | Mar 12, 2012

(RNS) The Catholic bishop leading the hierarchy's push against the White House's contraception mandate says the bishops hope to re-start contentious talks with the Obama administration but says church leaders "have gotten mixed signals from the administration" and the situation "is very fluid." By David Gibson.
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RNS OBAMA BISHOPS

Kevin Eckstrom | Mar 6, 2012

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has said talks with the White House over a proposed contraception mandate are "going nowhere."
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Analysis: Bishops’ contraception objections fail their church’s own moral reasoning

David Gibson | Feb 14, 2012

(RNS) Some critics of President Obama's compromise on contraception have called it a "game of let's pretend." Yet that "game" is actually a venerable tradition in Catholic moral theology that for centuries has provided a way for Christians to think about acting virtuously in a fallen world. By David Gibson.
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RNS OBAMA MANDATE

Kevin Eckstrom | Feb 10, 2012

President Obama will exempt religious organizations from providing free contraception services to employees, but will require that all insurance companies do so.
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Nine reasons why Catholic education rocks

David Gibson | Jan 30, 2012

There are many people, Catholics in particular, who have objected to the Obama administration’s decision not to expand the religious exemption in the new federal regulations mandating that all employer health insurance plans provide free contraceptive coverage. But perhaps few have as much cause to complain – and are less likely to do so – than the nine Catholic educators (one a student) honored by the White House last week.
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The end of ‘compassionate conservatism’?

Amy Sullivan | Jan 30, 2012

(RNS) Just three years after George W. Bush left the White House, compassionate conservatives are an endangered species. Is this just a case of the Republican Party wanting to distance itself from the Bush years -- or is compassionate conservatism gone for good? By Amy Sullivan.
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Top Catholic bishop feels betrayed by Obama

David Gibson | Jan 25, 2012

(RNS) In the wake of President Obama's controversial decision last week to force religious groups pay for contraceptives, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is feeling personally betrayed.
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