From the last two national elections to the current controversy over health care reform, the struggle over the Roman Catholic conscience in American politics has been in full public view. Too often in ...

Participants in the February 2016 conference, "Conscience and Catholic Health Care: From Clinical Contexts to Government Mandates." Conscience issues abound in Catholic health care in a pluralist ...

Obama administration critics say the president misled his religious supporters in a 2009 Notre Dame speech, in which he supported conscience protections and “common ground” on issues like abortion.

Though President Barack Obama won the Catholic vote in 2008, 2012 will not be as easy, either for him or for the Catholics who had supported him. Obama’s health care overhaul and ensuing birth control ...

A health care worker administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a Marymount University student in one of the athletic buildings on the Catholic university’s Arlington, Va., campus, during a ...

MIAMI (EWTN News)—President Barack Obama has not kept his promises about conscience protections for abortion opponents, and those who trusted him to exclude abortion from the health-care bill seem to ...

Pope Francis often makes headlines with in-flight press conferences at the end of papal trips, and his return to Rome from visiting Southeast Asia in September was no exception. Asked what advice he ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — The Catholic voter “bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good,” Bishop W. Shawn ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The announcement of a new conscience protection rule May 2 protecting health care workers who object to abortion procedures on religious grounds was welcome news to U.S. Catholic ...

The Associated Press report “U.S. bishop warns of ‘anxiety’ at pope’s summit” (The Frederick News-Post, Oct. 17) offers only what the secular media wants to report (e.g., conflict in the church). The ...