In 2013, religious groups and houses of worship were granted a religious exemption by the Supreme Court from the government’s mandate in the Affordable Care Act to include coverage of contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health plan.
Women Religious
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Response to 2010 Haitian earthquake did not bring structural change, sisters say
The disaster killed an estimated 220,000 people, injured more than 300,000 and left 1.5 million homeless.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: ‘The Sacrament’ tells a searing story about abuse in the Catholic Church
The horrors of abuse remain offstage, barely spoken of, yet the entire book is haunted by them.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
A Catholic Sister learns to serve people with AIDS
In the fifth episode of “Plague,” Mike visits the small Midwestern city of Belleville, Illinois, where a Catholic Sister broke ground in the 1980s by opening an organization to provide services for people living with HIV and AIDS.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
This Advent season, listen to your hometown prophets
Prophets are those people who through gentleness or annoyance (or some combination of the two) have called us to who we really are and pointed to where we were supposed to go.
Posted inFaith, News
Good Shepherd sister receives 16th annual Opus Prize for work in Congo
Sister Mutindi’s religious order, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, is an international congregation with sisters in 73 countries.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
On last day in Thailand, Pope Francis tells missionaries to ‘give faith a Thai face and flesh’
The pope reminded priests, religious and seminarians that the fervor of evangelization “is nurtured by a double encounter: with the face of the Lord and with the faces of our brothers and sisters.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why the Catholic Church needs modern-day female prophets
We women do not want to make waves; we do not want to upset people. But the moment for all of us to act is decidedly now.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis canonizes five new saints, including John Henry Newman
The new saints include three women religious who cared for the poor and the sick, a laywoman mystic and the most significant English Catholic theologian of modern times.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic sisters and nuns call for voting rights for women at the Amazon synod
Reform groups are seeking to bring attention to the fact that 185 men but no women are voting members of the Special Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian Region that begins on Oct. 6.