Abortion Church Law Politics Society Obama expands contraceptive mandate Sheila March 18, 2012 Late last Friday when many Americans and certainly church leaders and were preparing for St. Patrick’s Day ceremonies and Read More
Abortion Church Culture Law Politics Society ‘Not even Jesus’ ministry would qualify for Sheila March 15, 2012 Since the administration keeps insisting it made an “exemption” or “accommodation” for religious objection to the Obama contraceptive mandate, let’Read More
Abortion Church Culture Law Media Politics Society Women’s health and the HHS Sheila March 12, 2012 How oddly sci-fi that perceived connection has become. There’s both science and fiction in the rendering of HHS policy Read More
Abortion Church Culture Law Media Politics Society “This isn’t about Catholics or contraception” Sheila March 10, 2012 “This is about the government coercing religious institutions to violate their own beliefs.” So clarifies the Becket Fund for Religious Read More
Abortion Church Culture Law Media Politics Society Women speak for themselves Sheila March 8, 2012 And in greater numbers, they’re showing up in media and the public forum to say the HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Read More
Abortion Church Law Politics Society Race and class and politics Sheila March 1, 2012 I could write an extemporaenous dissertation on the political race and the human race, class acts and class warfare, and Read More
Church Culture Law Media Politics Society Obama mandate’s resistance coalition Sheila February 26, 2012 The president may have been surprised by the unusual and overwhelming unity among Catholic Americans after he issued an unprecedented Read More
Abortion Church Culture Law Politics Society HHS mandate ‘for the women’ Sheila February 21, 2012 Some audacious claims have been made in Washington lately on behalf of women. They clearly speak for Planned Parenthood and Read More
Abortion Church Law Media Politics Society Obama and the Catholic divide Sheila February 16, 2012 He won the presidency by capturing slightly over half of the Catholic vote. He probably can’t count on that Read More
Abortion Church Law Politics Society Why mandate birth control? Sheila February 15, 2012 The national firestorm over the HHS contraceptive mandate and conscience rights, President Obama’s ‘war on the church’ and constitutionally Read More