"One of the well known truisms in ethics is that good moral judgments depend in part on good facts." So wrote Dr. Ron Hamel, senior director of ethics for the Catholic Health Association of the United ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Conception. Pregnancy. Abortion. Abortifacient. Those words today are in a rhetorical swamp where contesting religious, medical and political views muddy understanding. And soon the U ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is an updated version of the Dec 27 article “Justice Sotomayor Rejects Hobby Lobby’s Request for Mandate Relief” WASHINGTON — The Christian-owned business Hobby Lobby has ...

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Part II of this essay can be read here. At the end of February, the Catholic bishops of Germany released a statement saying that women who are victims of rape should receive care at Catholic hospitals ...

Although I am loath to talk about something as traumatizing and violent as rape as if it were an ideological issue, given the national conversation taking place about abortion in cases of rape and ...

The reality is, this is not about women’s rights or helping women, or even helping women obtain abortifacients. As a practical matter, it makes zero difference to the female employees of Hobby Lobby ...

On March 23, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell, a consolidated case brought by religious nonprofits challenging a process for opting out of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) ...

If the anti-abortion movement could rouse itself to oppose spraying a civilian population with miscarriage-causing chemicals, it might actually make a difference. Protesters react to the effects of ...

I refer to Martin Scicluna’s article on the morning after pill (July 13). The title ‘Ovarian Obsessions’ is disparaging, the right-to-life lobby are “a rag-bag”, and the priests who have contributed ...