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ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the unpopular HHS mandate taking effect this month, the leaders of the U.S. and Canadian Bishops' Conferences joined Pope Benedict XVI in expressing concern over restrictions on religious liberty and praising the Knights of Columbus for their work in its defense. Both Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York - president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - and Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton - president...
Letter to be distributed to attendees of organization's 130th International Convention in Anaheim on Aug. 7 ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As more than 2000 Knights of Columbus and their family members gather for the organization's 130th International Convention - together with more than 80 archbishops and bishops, including 12 cardinals, and scores of clergy - the Pope has praised the organization's work for religious liberty in a letter to be released to...
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHS "took a first, urgently needed step toward upholding rights of conscience and religious freedom in our health care system," by including two key provisions in its appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2013, according to the chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston welcomed...
Award Honors Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Catholic Church in the African American Community ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Catholic Charities USA is honored to announce that Senior Director of Government Affairs, Ronald G. Jackson, Sr., MSW, JD, has been chosen by the National Black Catholic Congress to receive the first of its kind Servus pro Christo (Servant of Christ) Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Catholic Church in the...
Franciscan University joins rising tide, including the Archdioceses of Washington, D.C., New York, and St. Louis, seeking to overturn the HHS mandate. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Franciscan University of Steubenville announced today that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration. The lawsuit, which was unanimously approved by Franciscan's Board of Trustees, challenges the...
Progress toward Greener D.C. to be tracked on District Government Website WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Universities in the nation's capital are committing to reducing energy usage in buildings by 69,000 MMBtus annually (enough energy to power 720 U.S. households for a year), as part of the District of Columbia Mayor's College and University Sustainability Pledge (CUSP) to make D.C. the "greenest college town in America." "I want to commend my colleagues in...
This year's breakfast to focus on 'Religious Liberty: Threatened at Home and Abroad' WASHINGTON, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Addressing a burning issue for Catholics nationwide - religious liberty - Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson will serve as guest speaker at this year's Eighth Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Also speaking will be Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio to the United Nations, who will deliver the...
Coalition of students from Catholic universities and local DC campuses applaud HHS regulations providing birth control without co-pay, tell Bishops to "back off" WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "We are here today speaking out for millions of students across the country that applaud the Obama administration's regulations and demand our right to exercise our individual religious freedoms by making personal medical decisions without interference from religious...
DETROIT, Jan. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to fight a mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services forcing all health care plans to provide contraception and sterilization coverage. This will revoke a decades-long conscience exemption for religiously affiliated plans. Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron made the following remarks regarding the mandate: "During the same week we commemorated the life, ministry,...
Unconscionable to force citizens to buy contraceptives against their will No change in limited exemption, only delay in enforcement Matter of freedom of conscience, freedom of religion WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Catholic bishops of the United States called "literally unconscionable" a decision by the Obama Administration to continue to demand that sterilization, abortifacients and contraception be included in virtually all health plans. Today's...
