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Bobby Jindal Punks Obama on Hobby Lobby: “He’s Googling ‘Can an Executive Order Override Supreme Court?’”
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 12:10 pm Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is already a pro-life rock star, but the governor may have one-upped himself with this excellent response to the Supreme Court decision today...
Hobby Lobby wins, narrowly.
Commonweal - Jun 30, 2014 at 12:04 pm As you've no doubt seen, in a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court decided in favor of Hobby Lobby, which means that the company--along with other similarly structured businesses--will...
Rand and the academy
Commonweal - Jun 30, 2014 at 12:01 pm This story generates a question. Or really, several questions: first, how many colleges or universities have programs that focus on the work of Ayn Rand? Second, what do such...
Court update: Closely held companies can’t be required to cover contraceptives
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm WASHINGTON — In a narrowly tailored 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court June 30 said closely held companies may be exempted from a government requirement to include contraceptives in...
United States Supreme Court Upholds Religious Liberty against HHS Abortion Pill Mandate
Thomas More Society - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:39 am Thomas More Society says victory sets clear precedent (June 30, 2014 – Chicago, IL) – Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the religious liberty rights of...
Asheville, North Carolina Abortion Clinic Closes Down For Good
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:36 am On the same day as the wonderful news came of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of pro-life free speech rights outside of abortion facilities, Asheville’s only abortion clinic,...
Where does anti-Hitler hero Dietrich Bonhoeffer fit?
GetReligion - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:30 am JOHN ASKS: [Dietrich Bonhoeffer] was a hero and martyr for the faith, but is it possible evangelical Christians in America have lionized someone whose theology is not actually in...
Some reader feedback
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:06 am I get lots of mail, some of it supportive, some of it, less than supportive.
This one is from an unsatisfied and yet cowardly, anonymous reader using a fake email address.
Why do...
Hobby Lobby in Pictures: Americans Cheer and Thank God After SCOTUS Victory
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:02 am The Supreme Court gave the pro-life movement a huge victory today. It determined the Obama administration couldn’t force Hobby Lobby and any other company or business that doesn’t...
Hartford archbishop: receiving pallium a 'moving' experience
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:01 am Vatican City, Jun 30, 2014 / 10:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After receiving the pallium from Pope Francis on Sunday’s feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Archbishop Leonard Blair expressed...
Hartford archbishop: receiving pallium a 'moving' experience
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:01 am Vatican City, Jun 30, 2014 / 11:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- After receiving the pallium from Pope Francis on Sunday's feast of Sts.
Peter and Paul, Archbishop Leonard Blair expressed...
Catholic Author Interview: Shane Kapler, “Through, With and In Him”
CatholicMom.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:00 am Today, we feature an interview with Shane Kapler, the author of the book Through, With, and In Him: The Prayer Life of Jesus and How to Make It Our Own. I know you will love this...
Incense in Art and Worship
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:00 am It has often seemed to me bizarre in the extreme that incense is so rarely encountered in so many Catholic churches. Incense appears everywhere in Scripture—in the law of Moses,...
Court: Closely held companies can’t be required to cover contraceptives
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:53 am WASHINGTON — In a narrowly tailored 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court June 30 said closely held companies may be exempted from a government requirement to include contraceptives in...
Bishop: Christians fleeing northern Iraq are ‘really, really afraid’
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:50 am AMMAN, Jordan — Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled shelling by extremist militants and were seeking refuge in the neighboring autonomous Kurdistan region, said Catholic leaders in...
Court: Closely held companies can’t be required to cover contraceptives
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:48 am In a narrowly tailored 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court June 30 said closely held companies may be exempted from a government requirement to include contraceptives in employee health...
A Founding Father’s Advice to the IRS
Catholic Vote - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:32 am While doing some work on the thought of Alexander Hamilton, America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, I came across a remark that contemporary IRS officials might do well to...
Pro-Abortion Activists Threaten to Burn Down Hobby Lobby Stores After SCOTUS Ruling
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:27 am The Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of Hobby Lobby against ObamaCare mandating them to pay for at least four drugs they deem abortive which would violate their religious...
Supreme Court Sides with Hobby Lobby 5-4 in a Narrowly Defined Decision
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 30, 2014 at 10:26 am In a narrowly-defined decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby cannot be forced by the HHS Mandate to provide certain medicines/services to its employees...
