Congress is about to take a vote on Obamacare: repeal, replace, whatever. Amid all the tinkering, I am not hearing much from Members of Congress about what made the “Affordable Care Act” utterly unacceptable to so many Catholics, including me: the contraceptive mandate.
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Good Works, While There’s Time
International Women’s Day is upon us again. I see the hashtag du jour is #ADayWithoutWomen, referring to a gender-based strike to show the world what happens when women bow out of work for a day. They don’t get paid, for one thing. Those of us who don’t work on salary already knew that. To eachContinue reading “Good Works, While There’s Time”
Open Book: a spiritual biography
The first week of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Not long ago, I was in Boston for a program on Catholic education. Among the speakers was Paul Elie of Georgetown University, of whom I hadn’t heard until thatContinue reading “Open Book: a spiritual biography”
Ellen Kolb 