The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court ruling and upheld Texas’ pro life law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have hospital privileges. A provision of the law that requires that abortion clinics to provide the same level of safety to patients as other free-standing surgery centers will take affect later this year. The law became a national cause when Texas state Senator Wendy Davis derailed the first attempt at passage with a filibuster.... Read more
Hooray for the Knights! Ethisphere Institute has named the Knights of Columbus life insurance company to its 2014 World’s Most Ethical Companies. The Knights were one of only two life insurance companies to earn this honor. From Catholic News Agency: New Haven, Conn., Mar 24, 2014 / 05:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The fraternal organization the Knights of Columbus has been recognized as one of the world’s most ethical companies by a research center on best practices in corporate ethics... Read more
When the roll is called down yonder, we’ll all line up according to our politics. At least that appears to be the situation regarding the answers to the question of whether or not religious freedom is threatened. There’s a lot of gas expended on this question, and most of it falls so predictably into political camps that the answers look more like responses to a roll call than genuine thinking. Liberal Democrats, say no, of course not; only ignorant... Read more
It’s been an interesting 24 hours for the folks at World Vision. Franklin Graham took them to task for their decision to hire people who are in same-sex marriages. Their supporters responded with a sense of betrayal and outrage. World Vision President, Richard Stearns, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he tried to parse the decision into something it wasn’t, saying in part: “It’s easy to read a lot more into this decision than is really there, he... Read more
President Obama has created a Constitutional crisis over religious freedom by aggressively using the power of his office to re-define it as a narrow “freedom to worship.” He seems proud of the moniker “most pro abortion president in history.” He has done more to destroy traditional marriage than any other living American. Why would he want to have his photo taken with the pope? Maybe he views himself as a sort of alter-statesman, a gee to the Holy Father’s... Read more
I know one new bill I’m probably going to be voting on this year. Oklahoma County District Judge Patricia Parrish has ruled the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional. Judge Parrish found that Oklahoma’s law violated due process because it blocked inmates from learning the names of the companies that manufacture the drugs used in executions. Drugs used in executions are becoming more scarce because overseas companies refuse to make them due to their objections to the death penalty, and... Read more
I put together a quick collage of teachings on marriage from Scripture, the Catechism and a couple of Apostolic letters written by Blessed John Paul II. I want to emphasize that Blessed John Paul II was reiterating what the Church has taught for two millennia. Synods reaching back to antiquity have consistently taught these same things. This is what the Church teaches about gay marriage. The sentence that I put in bold states the position those of us in... Read more
I’m not going to do a post mortem on the arguments the Supreme Court heard on the Hobby Lobby/HHS Mandate case. I won’t give you a run-down of which justice twitched, which one pulled his or her earlobe and who coughed. Trying to divine how the Court will rule by studying the questions justices asked and the expressions on their faces has become a kind of sport, like handicapping a horserace. Only it’s not nearly so accurate. I think... Read more
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