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Tag Archives: religious freedom
Can you imagine bishops doing something like this today?
Can you imagine more than a handful of bishops today doing something like this? In the days of the King’s Great Matter, only one bishop in England stood fast. Today at The Catholic Thing, Nicholas Senz has a good piece … Read More
The latest SCOTUS decision affirming Religious Liberty – Trinity Lutheran v. Comer
At Crisis there is a masterful explanation of the most recent US Supreme Court decision which upheld (7-2) religious liberty. On days like today, we need some GOOD news. I won’t do anything with it here. You should go there … Read More
Monday was a good day, so was Tuesday
Monday was a Good News day. HERE I read that the US House of Representatives passed a bill today. Among other things, this bill also chips away at Obamacare. From CNA: US House votes to permanently ban federal abortion funding … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras
Tagged federal funding, religious freedom, religious liberty
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Detroit’s crafty new tax on churches
From the Detroit News: A balanced budget in Detroit might be something only prayed for, but few could imagine Motor City managers raiding church offering plates for revenue. Yet new drainage fees from the city’s Water and Sewerage Department may … Read More
PODCAzT 142: It’s Nazi Germany, it’s 1937, you are Catholic, and you are afraid. Mit brennender Sorge!
Fr. John Hunwicke, at his fine blog Mutual Enrichment, reminds us all that on this liturgical day, Monday of Holy Week, in 1937… … the Gestapo raided diocesan offices and presbyteries all over Germany. The previous day, Palm Sunday, when the churches … Read More
LOUISIANA: Judge strikes down law requiring confessors to report abuse
Have you followed at all the court battle in Louisiana concerning the Seal of Confession and obligation to report certain crimes? From CWN: A Louisiana judge has ruled unconstitutional a new state law requiring priests to report sexual abuse that … Read More
5 Facts about the Little Sisters of the Poor SCOTUS case
From the Becket Fund For Religious Liberty: Dear Friends, The world watched while the Pope, during his US tour, made a surprise visit to the Sisters “in support of the Sisters’ legal fight.” As you may know, on Holy Wednesday, … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Religious Liberty, SCOTUS, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, HHS mandate, Little Sisters of the Poor, Obamacare, Obamatax, religious freedom, religious liberty, SCOTUS
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“It was impossible to say Mass in the barrack, of course.”
Our religious liberties are not to be taken for granted. I sometimes consider what I might do when they come for priests and bishops who continue faithfully to preach Catholic doctrine fully. When my mind goes down this dark track, … Read More
Thomas Aquinas College will not compromise
I have learned from the Catholic education watchdog group Cardinal Newman Society (see their feed on the sidebar of this blog) that Thomas Aquinas College has opted to NOT to knuckle under to the threats of the Obama Administration regarding ObamaTax … Read More
The Flag, Pope Francis, Cuba and Religious Freedom
Look… Pope’s meet with all sorts of people. That said, I direct your attention to a piece at USA Today by Nichols Hahn of Real Clear Religion. My emphases. Havana’s U.S. flag no victory for pope: Column Secretary of State John Kerry’s … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on 27 February – Blog Maintenance & Migration Day UPCOMING: “Smarticus Pantsicus!”
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