Pick of the Web, week of 6/21/13
Important news from New York state today: the state senate just stopped an effort by Gov. Cuomo to expand abortion availability and to deny conscience protection to health care workers who choose not...
View ArticleBishop Libasci opens “Fortnight for Freedom” in NH
“Fighting for freedom includes standing for the freedom to stand before God in clear conscience.” Bishop Joseph Libasci sees a storm coming as religious liberty is challenged in today’s America. In his...
View ArticlePick of the web, week of 6/29
First, a local link and call to action: You can SIGN this petition as a counter-measure to the Concord “buffer zone” petition. Please do so TODAY. It is for Concord residents “and other concerned...
View ArticleA movie for your #Fortnight4Freedom
Norfolk: Why can’t you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship! Sir Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine,...
View Article“Women Speak for Themselves” on the Mandate
“Those currently invoking ‘women’s health’ in an attempt to shout down anyone who disagrees with forcing religious institutions or individuals to violate deeply held beliefs are more than a little...
View ArticleThe doctor is in … the Court
Nothing closes a legislator’s mind to a pro-life argument quite like pro-abortion testimony from a medical professional. Funny thing: abortion advocacy groups coined the term “gynotician” in derisive...
View ArticleNot just freedom to worship
This quote is from a Catholic man speaking to other Catholic men, but his message is for all of us, regardless of gender or faith or state in life. Remember what kind of freedom we as Americans have...
View Article“We should be planting trees … the tree of life”
(Original version posted June 23, 2013.) Bishop Joseph Libasci sees a storm coming as religious liberty is challenged in today’s America. In his June 22 homily in Manchester, New Hampshire at a Mass...
View ArticleOn (not) keeping religion out of politics
Freedom of religion vs. freedom of worship: what’s the difference? If one’s respect for life is grounded in faith in God, is that respect somehow inappropriate for the public square? Is freedom to bear...
View ArticleQuite a Fortnight, with more religious-liberty questions than before
It’s appropriate, no matter which side one supports, that the Supreme Court’s decision on marriage came down during Fortnight for Freedom. It also came just a couple of days after this blog linked to a...
View ArticleFortnight for Freedom 2017
Fortnight for Freedom is back for 2017, running from today until Independence Day. This project of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is for everyone. Religion [cannot] be relegated to the inner...
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