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Fr Jose LaBoy
Recently the Administrative Committee of the USCCB released a Statement in which they express several important aspects behind the HHS mandate.
There seemingly has been some debate whether the mandate is about contraception or about Religious Freedom. Recent articles have been emphasizing one or the other. In reality both have to be taken into account but not in the same way.
The emphasis on it being an issue of religious freedom can make it seem that the evil of contraception is just a religious belief, More…
Notre Dame Philosophy Professor Gary Gutting stated in a New York Times op ed that “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.”
“It may be objected,” Gutting wrote, “that, regardless of what individual Catholics think, the bishops in fact exercise effective control over the church. This is true in many respects, but only to the extent that members of the church accept their authority. Stalin’s alleged query about papal authority More…
Here’s a video that brilliantly illustrates the rationality behind preferring Natural Family Planning (NFP) over artificial means of birth control.

Fr Jose LaBoy
Our Bishops, thank God, are insisting on the fact that the fight against the HHS Mandate is not just about contraception. It’s about religious freedom and freedom of conscience. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has clearly stated that “the battle over the HHS mandate is bigger than contraception. It is a freedom of religion battle”.
In recent weeks, Planned Parenthood has been mounting an aggressive propaganda campaign to promote abortion, contraception, and sterilization as fundamental to women’s health and reproductive rights.
In light of the HHS Mandate, many Catholics have seen this as part of a concerted attack on the Catholic Church and have decided to fight fire with fire, by retaliating with the Catholic answer. More…