How to Navigate the Vaccination Mandate Debate
Discerning the science and civil discourse are key.
Results from Tag: 'freedom of conscience'
COVID Mandate Logic
EDITORIAL: The decision whether to vaccinate or not should be a free and informed choice, not something that’s mandated or coerced by our governments.
After Catholic Football Coach Was Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine, Lawyer Alleges Anti-Religious Animus
Nick Rolovich intends to sue Washington State University after he was refused a religious exemption to the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and was subsequently fired for not getting vaccinated.
Massachusetts University School Official Rejects All Vaccine Religious-Exemption Requests
Lawyers representing the Bay State have backed the official’s stance that Catholics can’t claim conscience exemptions, based on his own ‘holistic’ assessment of Church teaching on the issue.
COVID, Catholics and Conscience
A NOTE FROM OUR PUBLISHER: We must both rightly form our conscience and also defend our freedom to use it.
The Case for Medical Conscientious Objection
COMMENTARY: If there is an area of the public square in which freedom of conscience should be robustly granted and reluctantly curtailed, health care is it.
This Heroic Polish Doctor Was Persecuted for Refusing to Perform Abortions
At great personal cost, Dr. Genowefa Abłażej stood her ground and defended life. She was honored by Pope St. John Paul II in 1988 with the medal ‘Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.’
Former Political Prisoner in Cuba: Everyone Is Called to ‘Bear Witness to the Truth’
Armando Valladares, a former prisoner of conscience in Cuban prisons, received the 2016 Canterbury Medal bestowed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on May 12.
Freedom of Conscience in the 21st Century
Alan Sears of Alliance Defending Freedom discusses the global attack on conscience rights.
Washington State Matchup: Religious Liberty vs. Plan B
‘The government has no business punishing citizens solely because of their religious beliefs,’ said a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
