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Fortnight for Freedom

Catholic service requires conscience rights, Boston cardinal stresses

Mar 11, 2013 - 11:11 pm .- Writing from Rome just a few days before the Papal conclave, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston called on members of Congress to support stronger religious freedom protections in health care.

Lawmakers, medical workers speak up on conscience bill

Mar 6, 2013 - 12:54 am .- Members of Congress and individuals who have been forced to violate their consciences came together to stress the need for a federal law protecting religious freedom in the field of health care.

Proposed federal bill to strengthen religious freedom

Mar 5, 2013 - 09:44 pm .- Members of Congress have introduced a new bill that would create a broad exemption to the HHS mandate and strengthen protections for health care professionals and institutions with moral and religious objections to abortion.

Lawmakers pen letter insisting on conscience protections

Mar 5, 2013 - 12:06 am .- More than a dozen federal legislators have written to Congressional leaders calling for stronger conscience protections to be included in the upcoming government funding bills.

Legislators behind religious freedom law support Hobby Lobby

Feb 22, 2013 - 07:03 am .- Nearly a dozen U.S. lawmakers who supported a 1993 law protecting religious liberty have formally defended Hobby Lobby in its recent religious freedom lawsuit.

Lawyer says ACLU wrongly limits religious liberty

Feb 15, 2013 - 11:03 am .- A lawyer involved in prominent religious liberty cases says the American Civil Liberties Union's opposition to religious exemptions will ultimately discriminate against believers.

Archbishop calls for return to America's 'founding ideals'

Feb 13, 2013 - 11:02 am .- Catholics today must help the U.S. return to its founding principles amid dangers to religious liberty, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore told a gathering of business leaders.

Bishops call new mandate proposal insufficient

Feb 7, 2013 - 08:29 pm .- The U.S. bishops said that the Obama administration’s suggested revisions to the federal contraception mandate fail to address the major religious liberty concerns they voiced last year.

Legal expert laments media confusion over mandate

Feb 6, 2013 - 11:02 am .- The Obama administration’s latest proposals to revise the federal contraception mandate have been significantly misunderstood and misrepresented, said a legal scholar.

HHS mandate changes protect only 'a few more ministries'

Feb 5, 2013 - 11:06 am .- Legal analysts warned that the government’s new proposals on the HHS mandate do little to expand religious freedom protections for employers that object to it.  

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May 24, 2013

Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel of the Day

Mark 10,1-12

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First Reading:: Sir 6:5-17
Gospel:: Mk 10:1-12

Homily of the Day

Mark 10,1-12

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