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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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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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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The Contraception Mandate Marches On
Speaking with reporters in December of 1993, President Clinton criticized the news media for paying little attention to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which he had signed into law the previous month. The law, he said, “affected the lives of people in a profound way.”
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