It’s the feast of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, marking the beginning of Religious Freedom Week as observed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It’s just a week, not a fortnight as was the case back in the early days of the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Still, a call to a dedicatedContinue reading “Religious Freedom Week, as we wait for Dobbs”
Category Archives: Catholic citizenship
On Amy Coney Barrett
As one Catholic woman to another, I send my best wishes to Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the U.S. Senate votes on her nomination to the Supreme Court. I don’t know how she’d vote on a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, and neither do you. Even so, I think every objection to her nominationContinue reading “On Amy Coney Barrett”
A little win for the Little Sisters at the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court tiptoed its way through a jungle of administrative law to hand another victory to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Some people just can’t stop insisting that nuns help provide birth control. In this case, it was the state of Pennsylvania, which deservedly lost on a 7-2 vote. Or, in theContinue reading “A little win for the Little Sisters at the Supreme Court”
Ellen Kolb 