Obamacare’s Contraception Mandate, Post-Scalia
by Christina Claxton ’16 “Uterus is back on the menu at the Supreme Court,” wrote Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick in her
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Catholics
Papa Francisco, Si; Catholic Social Teaching, Not So Much
By Andrew Walsh America loves a papal visit. For the tenth time since the Pope Paul VI made a
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Showdown at the Bishops Synod
Everyone interested in the future of the Catholic church is now focused on the Synod of Bishops on the Family – the showdown in Rome between progressive forces seeking to reanimate the spirit of the Second Vatican Council and conservatives anxious to maintain the “reform of the reform” undertaken by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
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Spiritual Libertarianism
In a talk April 6 at Boston College, Mark Silk argued that the past decade has seen the development of a new kind of libertarianism alongside of economic, civil, and moral libertarianism. He called it “spiritual libertarianism,” and saw evidence of it in recent state efforts to pass strict new version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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