Archive | May, 2012
Catholic Bishops ready for civil disobedience

Catholic Bishops ready for civil disobedience

From Breitbart A new document published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB) is preparing Catholics across the nation for the prospect of engaging in massive civil disobedience in response to the HHS mandate requiring Catholic-affiliated institutions to provide free contraception, sterilization procedures, and abortion-inducing drugs to employees. The document, which has been prepared [...]

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Obama video: 6-year-old’s career dreams require HHS birth control mandate (video)

From LifeSiteNews President Obama’s YouTube channel recently released a video titled “Letters to the President: The Dreams of Our Daughters.” Check it out. Behind the cute story, scenes of children laughing at a playground, and emotional piano music is a completely incorrect message. Erin Bilbray-Kohn, the narrator of the video, follows her description of her [...]

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NPR plays-up Catholic priest’s trial but ignores Church’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit

NPR plays-up Catholic priest’s trial but ignores Church’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit

From News Busters NPR obviously thought the case of Monsignor William Lynn, “the highest ranking  Catholic official in the U.S. to be criminally tried for covering up child sex  abuse by priests,” was newsworthy, as they devoted four and a half minutes to  the story on Thursday’s All Things Considered. Meanwhile, the public radio  network [...]

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Mormons, Catholics, Baptists & Jews come together to plan defense of ‘religious liberty’

Mormons, Catholics, Baptists & Jews come together to plan defense of ‘religious liberty’

From The Blaze Conservative faith leaders of all stripes gathered on Thursday in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of religious freedom in America. This event is the latest in a series of developments that were sparked by the Obama administration’s controversial contraceptive mandate. What started as a Catholic protest against the regulatory structure has [...]

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Cardinal Dolan: Obama administration wants to define ‘Church’ for you (video)

Cardinal Dolan: Obama administration wants to define ‘Church’ for you (video)

From Fox News Even President Obama knows that religion and the churches need their freedom and should be exempt for conscience, he admits that and if we had stopped there we would be in great shape. If he would have said simply churches and communities of faith that have a conscientious objection to it don’t [...]

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Catholic leaders outraged over media silence on HHS mandate lawsuits (video)

Catholic leaders outraged over media silence on HHS mandate lawsuits (video)

From Gateway Pundit Catholic leaders are outraged over the mainstream media silence on the HHS mandate lawsuits. Over 40 Catholic dioceses and organizations around the country announced on Monday that they were suing the Obama administration for violating their freedom of religion. The mainstream media only given viewers a combined 19 seconds on this major [...]

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Cardinal Dolan: White House is “strangling” Catholic church (video)

Cardinal Dolan: White House is “strangling” Catholic church (video)

From CBS News The spat between Catholic leaders and the Obama administration over its contraception policies is heating up again, with one of the nation’s most prominent bishops charging that the White House is “strangling” the church over the matter. Archbishop Timothy Dolan told “CBS This Morning” Tuesday that the compromise reached earlier this year [...]

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Evangelicals respond to Catholic lawsuits:  ‘We are all Catholic now’

Evangelicals respond to Catholic lawsuits: ‘We are all Catholic now’

From LifeSiteNews The Obama administration’s HHS mandate has united Christians of all stripes – evangelical, historical Protestant, and Roman Catholic – as they close ranks behind a flurry of lawsuits filed yesterday morning to overturn the controversial measure and stall government interference in religion. After 43 Catholic institutions – including the major archdioceses, dioceses, universities, [...]

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Catholics won’t go quietly

Catholics won’t go quietly

From the Washington Post By Michael Gerson In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns — important to strategic constituencies in battleground states — can end up being crucial. President Obama may have hoped for a decisive reelection victory, styled on Ronald Reagan’s in [...]

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Cardinal Wuerl: Mother Teresa wouldn’t qualify as ‘religious’ under Obamacare rule (video)

Cardinal Wuerl: Mother Teresa wouldn’t qualify as ‘religious’ under Obamacare rule (video)

From CNS News Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., said in an open letter on Monday and in a videotaped message that the Obama administration would not have considered the work of Mother Teresa as “religious” and thus would not have exempted her charitable organizations from a new federal regulation, issued under Obamacare, that will force Catholics [...]

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