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If health coverage is “truly independent” of the petitioners, they would no longer object to the ACA’s goal of providing access to free birth control to women.

“We do not want to wait to see the complete elimination of Christians, Yezidis and certain Muslim groups before we actually declare this violence for what it is.”

“It’s not a gift we simply receive, but one we must give to others.”

Bishops support the Religious Freedom Restoration Act but “do not support any implementation of RFRA in a way that will discriminate against any individual.”

“The attack is an outcome of a barbaric and insane interpretation of religion by a group of misguided people.”

He argues Biden’s positions on abortion and same-sex marriage should make him ineligible to receive the award.

Father Elizondo was widely recognized as “the father of U.S. Latino religious thought.”

“The very future of the ancient Christian presence in the Middle East is at stake,” Archbishop Kurtz said.

The Washington archdiocese said the issue is not about free speech because “lacking in this choice by the student group is any reflection of what should be an environment of morality, ethics and human decency that one expects on a campus that asserts its Jesuit and Catholic history and identity.”

“Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States. His campaign has already driven our politics down to new levels of vulgarity,” said the letter from two prominent Catholics, Robert George and George Weigel.