Bishops Weigh In
Posted by The Editors
Friday, October 30, 2009 3:31 PM
Not long after Nancy Pelosi unveiled the 1,990-page House health-care reform bill Oct. 29, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an urgent call to arms.
The House bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, contains provisions for the public funding of abortions under a new health-care delivery and financing scheme in America. All Americans will pay for other people’s abortions,... READ MORE
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Another Kind of ‘Public Option’
Posted by The Editors
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:58 PM
While members of Congress continue to debate whether to include a “public option” health-care plan in a national health system, the Catholic Medical Association has called for a “reset” of the entire effort.
The CMA, meeting in Springfield, Ill., for their 78th annual general assembly, issued a resolution Oct. 23 calling on Congress to “begin the process anew.”
One of the things the... READ MORE
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President to Catholic Press: On Conscience Protection
Posted by Tim Drake
Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:22 PM
We reported earlier on the president’s meeting with the Catholic press and his promise regarding conscience-clause protection. For his exact words on the subject, read on.
“I think that the only reason that my position may appear unclear is because it came in the wake of a last-minute, 11th-hour change in conscience clause provisions that were pushed forward by the previous administration that... READ MORE
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Reading in Good Conscience
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:42 PM
Praise from Father Richard John Neuhaus is high praise indeed.
Here’s what Father Neuhaus has to say in the January issue of First Things about the new book by Legionary Father Thomas Williams, “Knowing Right from Wrong: A Christian Guide to Conscience” (with thanks to The Catholic Conscience blog, which posted Father Neuhaus’s comments in an entry Jan. 3):
“You may have run into the... READ MORE
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A Saint on Broadway
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:51 AM
“When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”
The New York area has been seeing ads for Broadway’s A Man for All Seasons on Broadway. Now Amanda Shaw and Nathaniel Peters give the play two thumbs up at First Things blog. And in doing so, they provide an excellent critique of the excesses in... READ MORE
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Australia’s Conscience Battle
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:06 AM
Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne, Australia, has warned Catholic hospitals might be forced to shut their maternity and emergency wards.
The reason: A bill now being debated in the state legislature that would force hospitals to perform abortions or refer patients who request them to other institutions that will.
Archbishop Hart said yesterday, “In the worst-case scenario, if a government is... READ MORE
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