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by bcadmin | Dec 14, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, COVID restrictions, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, News, Religious exemptions, Vaccinations | 0 |
The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests Dec. 13 from New York health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its health care employees.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Biden Administration, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic Charities USA, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, lead, National Catholic Educational Association, News, President Joe Biden, Religious education, Religious exemptions, USCCB | 0 |
In a new letter to U.S. congressional leaders, religious leaders call for changes to the child care and universal pre-kindergarten provisions in the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Act that won’t indirectly exclude religious providers.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 30, 2021 | Archbishop William E. Lori, Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Religious exemptions, U.S. Congress | 0 |
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., has urged Congress to pass the Conscience Protection Act.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Associated Press, California, Catholic hospitals, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Transgender | 0 |
The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital that wouldn’t allow a transgender man to have a hysterectomy there.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2021 | California, California Catholic Conference, Catholic healthcare, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Interviews, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
Kathleen Domingo is Executive Director of the California Catholic Conference, the first woman to hold this position.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Biden Administration, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Department of Justice, News, Religious exemptions, USCCB | 0 |
The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ religious liberty and pro-life committees said Aug. 12 that the U.S. Department of Justice “is acting in dereliction of its duty to enforce the plain meaning of federal law” by voluntarily dismissing a civil lawsuit against a hospital that forced nurses to assist in elective abortions against their religious beliefs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Conscientious objection, News, Ohio, Oregon | 0 |
A bill designed to slow the advance of Catholic health care in Oregon passed the state Legislature at the eleventh hour.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Religious exemptions, South Carolina | 0 |
South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill to let mental health professionals refuse to provide care that violates their religious beliefs in response to an ordinance banning conversion therapy for minors in the state’s capital city.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, LGBT, Montana, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
The Montana House passed a bill Thursday that would allow people to challenge government regulations that interfere with their religious beliefs.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | Arkansas, Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Conscientious objection, News | 0 |
The Arkansas Legislature on Thursday approved a bill allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone due to religious or moral objections, sending it to the governor over complaints that would create a blanket right to discriminate against patients.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 16, 2021 | Arkansas, Associated Press, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, Conscientious objection, News | 0 |
The Arkansas House on Monday approved legislation that would allow doctors to refuse to treat someone because of religious or moral objections, a proposal that opponents say would give broad powers to discriminate against patients.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2021 | Becket, Becket Fund, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Conscience Protection, News, Transgender | 0 |
Attorneys for doctors and hospitals argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit March 3 that they shouldn’t be forced to perform gender-transition surgeries required under the Affordable Care Act, stressing this is an issue of conscience.
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