religious exemptions

In some quarters the Catholic Health Association’s rejection of the Obama administration’s compromise was treated as a reversal of position. But is it really all about contraceptive coverage?

Georgetown founder John Carroll wouldn’t be surprised to find his university in a controversy concerning the appropriate place of religious groups in civil affairs… but he might be surprised that this time an attack came from within the Church.

Why are the US Catholic Bishops exerting so much energy and money and time on the matter of contraception, with no similarly public cries of outrage against the death penalty, state-sponsored torture, or the two preemptive wars in which the US has involved itself for fully a decade?

What propelled a ginned up controversy into a media frenzy wasn’t that the Bishops opposed Obama—again; it was that “even progressive Catholics” were up in arms about it.

What of protestants and Jews who believe it’s an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?

An argument against Commonweal’s argument against the religious exemption.

Theologians urge government not to broaden exemption.

Will permit religious organizations to ignore legal status in matters of health care.