For now, the Justice Department’s letter won’t change anything for those insured through the ACA, but the issue will likely gain political attention as it works its way through the courts.
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Catholic parents should vaccinate their children, Vatican academy says
Catholic parents should vaccinate their children for the good of their children and the community said the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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Court OKs Ohio law ending state funding of Planned Parenthood Medicaid services
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati ruled March 12 that the state of Ohio can stop funding Medicaid services provided by Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.
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How religious orders and unions team up to put social pressure on corporations
A broad investor coalition involving religious orders, labor unions and state pension funds that control more than $3 trillion in assets is working with the nation’s leading drug distributors as corporate annual meeting season nears.
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Vatican underlines support of universal health care coverage
The Vatican supports efforts to build stronger and sustainable essential health care services on the way toward achieving universal health coverage, a Vatican official said.
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Hysterectomy can be morally licit in limited situations, Vatican says
The church teaches that sterilization is morally unacceptable, but a hysterectomy could be if the uterus could not sustain a pregnancy, according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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The rate of uninsured children is growing. We must stop it.
In November the Georgetown Center for Children and Families announced that the number of uninsured children in the United States went up for the first time in nearly a decade. While 7.6 million children were uninsured in 2008, by 2016 that figure had dropped to 3.6 million. But in 2017, 300,000 children lost coverage. The […]
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Final HHS rule confirms religious exemption to contraceptive mandate
In a joint statement Nov. 9, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of its Committee for Religious Liberty applauded the Trump administration’s decision “to finalize common-sense regulations” for religious employers.
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Your Catholic 2018 midterm roundup: health care, wages, abortion and more
Many ballot measures supported by Catholic leaders saw success in the Midterms.
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How can we cure gun violence?
Our Nov 7 guest is Eileen Markey, who will talk about her article, “Can we use public health models to cure the disease of gun violence?” We also discuss these articles: I took in a Honduran refugee. It was no big deal The Ignatian Family Teach In poses a contrast to the divided American Family Three […]