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by bcadmin | May 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, NETWORK, News, Obamacare, Poverty, Sister Simone Campbell, Social Justice | 0 |
It was during the late 1960s that Adrian Dominican Sister Carol Coston felt the energy unleashed by the Second Vatican Council in the call from church leaders to engage the world with the richness of Catholic teaching.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2021 | Affordable Care Act, News, Obamacare, Supreme Court, U.S. & World News | 0 |
In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | Affordable Care Act, Catholic Church, Catholic Healthcare Association, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Obamacare, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
On Nov. 10, when the fate of the Affordable Care Act faced the Supreme Court for the third time since it was signed into law 10 years ago, the justices seemed willing to leave the bulk of the law intact even if they found one part of it to be unconstitutional.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Mandate, News, Obama Care, Obamacare, Supreme Court, U.S. & World News, Unconstitutional | 0 |
On Nov. 10, when the fate of the Affordable Care Act faced the Supreme Court for the third time since it was signed into law 10 years ago, the justices seemed willing to leave the bulk of the law intact even if they found one part of it to be unconstitutional.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | 2020, Abortion, ACA, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Columns, Dianne Feinstein, Hadley Arkes, Josh Hawley, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michael Rappaport, News, Obamacare, Robert Bork, Roe v. Wade, The Catholic Thing, The “Settled” Agony of the Hearings | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: Hearings for Supreme Court nominees have become so contentions that message is, “Keep your head down, and take the pummeling.”
The post The “Settled” Agony of the Hearings appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2020 | 2020 election, Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic Church, Catholic Health Association, Catholic healthcare, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Healthcare, Joe Biden, News, Obamacare, President Donald Trump, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
This election year, in the midst of a global pandemic and with the Affordable Care Act about to be challenged for the third time before a Supreme Court that is in flux, it’s no surprise health care is a bigger issue than it has been in previous presidential elections.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2020 | Becket Fund, Blaine Amendment, Featured, Little Sisters of Poor, News, Obamacare, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Bad luck comes in threes, so they say. Sometimes so do good things, as demonstrated by three recent Supreme Court decisions on religious liberty. In a sea of recent bad news in the United States, we should welcome these rulings as a happy interruption that will hopefully provide some protection to the Catholic Church’s work […]
by bcadmin | Jul 14, 2020 | 2020, Affordable Care Act, Biden Administration, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Hadley Arkes, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Little Sisters of the Poor, News, Obamacare, Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), SCOTUS, Supreme Court, The Catholic Thing, The Little Sisters and the Court: Muddling Through, Trump administration | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: For now, religious people will not be forced to pay for contraceptives and abortions. But that may change as our politics changes.
The post The Little Sisters and the Court: Muddling Through appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2020 | Donald J. Trump, Featured, Governor Jerry Brown, Healthcare, HHS mandate, Joe Biden, Little Sisters of Poor, Nancy Pelosi, News, Obamacare, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Today, the Little Sisters of the Poor were back at the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping finally to bring their eight-year legal battle to an end. While several of the justices seemed inclined to side with the Trump administration’s expanded religious exemptions to the contraceptive mandate, I’ve been surprised to see much of the opposition to […]
by bcadmin | May 8, 2020 | Abortion, Barack Obama, Cardinal Francis George, contraceptives, Jack Jenkins, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Little Sisters of the Poor, News, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Sister Carol Keehan, The Dispatch, USCCB | 0 |
The Little Sisters of the Poor were back at the Supreme Court on May 6, continuing to lead the battle to preserve conscience rights violated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Contraception mandate, HHS mandate, Little Sisters of the Poor, News, Obamacare, Religious Freedom, religious liberty, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court’s third day of hearing arguments by telephone is its first chance at a high-profile case, this one involving the Affordable Care Act.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 11, 2020 | Contraception, Featured, Healthcare, Little Sisters of Poor, News, Obamacare, Politics, Weekly Headlines, woke capitalism | 0 |
There is nothing quite so depressing as politicians jerking nuns around. The Little Sisters of the Poor are returning to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time. They’ve already twice defended their right not to comply with the Obamacare requirement that employers provide free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance. The Little Sisters are a […]
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