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A reading list for seminarians and other Catholic conservatives
By Thomas Reese — March 14, 2023
(RNS) — Books changed my life. They can change yours too.
Amy Coney Barrett’s religion isn’t the problem. It’s her record.
By Sabrina E. Dent — October 21, 2020
(RNS) — Defending the Supreme Court nominee’s right to believe what she wishes obscures the question of her fairness and her qualifications, and assigns Barrett’s faith a legal deference it does not deserve.
Little Sisters of the Poor return to court to fight birth control mandate
By Thomas Reese — January 23, 2020
(RNS) — In a rerun of a 2016 case, the Supreme Court shouldn't be required to settle what the parties ought to have settled themselves.
The death of trust and the triumph of suspicion
By Thomas Reese — June 26, 2019
(RNS) — Unless we build bridges and trust, neither the church nor America has much of a future.
Kenya’s Catholic bishops provoke debate over public health and contraception
By Doreen Ajiambo — February 11, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Citing an acute shortage of priests as a reason to obey the Vatican's longstanding ban on artificial forms of family planning, a bishop ignited a larger debate about family size and poverty.
Fifty years later, scientist’s finding on birth control still challenges Catholic teaching
By Frank Maurovich — July 24, 2018
(RNS) — Many Catholic theologians warn that preserving an unscientific stance on birth control will weaken the Catholic Church's credibility on all sexual issues, not just birth control.
How Catholic women fought Vatican’s prohibition on contraceptives
By Mary J. Henold — June 26, 2018
(The Conversation) — Fifty years ago a fierce debate erupted in the Catholic Church over the papal document “Humanae Vitae,” which reiterated the church’s ban on artificial contraception. Six hundred scholars, including many clergy, dissented from its teaching, sparking a debate that caused a crisis over authority in the worldwide church.
We must keep fighting to outlaw abortion: A response to Thomas Reese
By Cardinal Timothy Dolan — June 8, 2018
(RNS) — While the law is not the only means of protecting life, it plays a key and decisive role in affecting both human behavior and thinking.
Notre Dame, contraception and a better conversation about sex
By Jacob Lupfer — November 15, 2017
(RNS) — In a surprising reversal, Notre Dame decided last week that allowing its health insurer to provide free contraceptives to female students and workers does not, after all, impinge on its religious liberty. So how sincere was the legal argument to begin with?
Critics line up against expected executive order on religious liberty
By Adelle M. Banks — May 3, 2017
(RNS) President Trump can expect serious pushback on a religious liberty executive order he is reportedly poised to sign.
Cool with contraception, Americans divide over transgender bathrooms and wedding services for gays
By Lauren Markoe — September 28, 2016
(RNS) A Pew Research Center poll takes on the religious liberty versus discrimination question.
6 life and death questions for ethicist Arthur Caplan
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 30, 2016
(RNS) Bioethicist Arthur Caplan looks at the moral quandaries posed by Zika and the Olympics, the right-to-die law in California and more headliner issues.
Philippines’ president-elect takes on Catholic Church over contraception
By Yonat Shimron — June 27, 2016
(RNS) The Filipino president elect paid men to undergo vasectomies while mayor of Davao.
Supreme Court sends ‘contraceptive mandate’ cases back to lower courts
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 16, 2016
WASHINGTON — The justices unanimously sent the cases back to federal appeals courts in hopes that they can emerge with a way to honor the objections of religious nonprofit groups.
Why the Supreme Court’s solution was an offer nonprofits couldn’t refuse (COMMENTARY)
By Mark Silk — April 13, 2016
(RNS) The nonprofits decided to embrace the court’s suggestion as the best deal they could get and simply grant that it doesn’t jeopardize their religious freedom.
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