In an address to a Planned Parenthood fundraising event, United States President Barack Obama has accused pro-life activists of being engaged in “an assault on women’s rights”. Hailing Planned Parenthood’s work, the President criticized “those who want to turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s”. Obama, the first sitting president to Read more
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Catholic priest Emil Kapaun receives posthumous medal 
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
They are all in their 80s now — these former POWs during the Korean War. One recalls in rapid-fire bursts how Father Emil Kapaun sneaked out of the barracks at night, risking his life to bring back morsels of food for his fellow prisoners. Another remembers seeing the young American priest use a rock and Read more
Bishops stress religious freedom to re-elected Obama Comments 0
Friday, November 9th, 2012
Congratulating the re-elected President Barack Obama, the president of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference has emphasised that the bishops “will continue to stand in defence of life, marriage, and our first, most cherished, liberty, religious freedom”. “The Catholic bishops of the United States offer our prayers that God will give you strength and wisdom Read more
Presidential debate: does the God vote matter? Comments 0
Friday, October 19th, 2012
The question is: Does the God vote matter? Mitt Romney’s advisers seem to think so. President Obama’s do not. For the second debate, Romney has remarked that we are all children of the same God. Obama has taken a pass. Romney has to appeal to the evangelicals, mostly Republican, who are suspicious of Mormons. Obama Read more
Catholic business avoids Obama birth control mandate Comments 0
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
A Colorado business owned by a Catholic family does not have to comply with President Barack Obama’s new healthcare mandate that private employers provide employees with insurance coverage of birth control, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John Kane in Denver temporarily blocked the government from the enforcing the birth control mandate against Read more
Little comfort for gun victims as wannabe-presidents shoot for goals Comments 0
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Before the dead had even been carried from the cinema in Colorado on Friday afternoon a CBS broadcaster said in a solemn radio editorial: ”We’ll eventually find out who James Holmes is, but he’s not a terrorist, we’re told, and thousands of other showings were peaceful, so really we have to start seeing these things as Read more
Lawsuits continue against Obama’s health care law Comments 0
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
A decision by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the core of President Obama’s health care law has given new impetus to legal challenges by church groups. The court did not address the religious liberty issue regarding a Health and Human Services mandate that requires religious employers to pay for contraception, abortifacients and sterilisation Read more
Nuns on the Bus take budget-cut protest on the road Comments 0
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
While America’s Catholic bishops are promoting a “Fortnight of Freedom” to combat Democrat President Barack Obama’s health insurance mandates, a group of nuns are on a multi-state bus tour to oppose Republican budget-cut policies. The “Nuns on the Bus” are focusing on budget cuts proposed by House of Representatives budget committee chair Paul Ryan, a Read more
US bishops’ toxic tussle with Obamacare Comments 0
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
In the US, it’s an election year, and the atmosphere is toxic. The incumbent president Barak Obama is up for re-election in November. The Republican primaries have taken a lot of airtime. One of the contested policy issues is Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many of the US Catholic Bishops have been critical of Read more
I blame myself and everyone like me Comments 0
Friday, February 17th, 2012
I feel like an idiot. When the U.S. bishops came out so strongly against the new government rules regarding contraceptives and health insurance, they said the issue was one of religious freedom. And I believed them. When the bishops argued that it was not the administration’s place to decide whether Catholic hospitals or colleges fit Read more
