A Win at the Supreme Court for Religious Liberty
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) enthusiastically welcomes the unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the First Amendment and protect religious liberty. On January 11,...
View ArticleArchbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, President of the Pontifical Council for Health...
On February 11, World Day of the Sick, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, will be in Philadelphia and will speak at a...
View ArticleThe NCBC and Catholic Healthcare West
By John M. Haas, Ph.D., S.T.L. NCBC President January 25, 2012. Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco has granted a “nihil obstat”, stating effectively that there are no moral obstacles to the...
View ArticleThe NCBC Expresses Extreme Dismay that Fact-Based Testimony on the Perils of...
January 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reaffirmed that virtually all private health care plans must cover sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. Non-profit...
View ArticleSusan G. Komen Foundation Applauded for Severing Relationship with Planned...
The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure (against breast cancer) has decided to no longer fund Planned Parenthood, which last year received nearly a quarter of a million dollars from the charitable...
View ArticleNCBC Responds to Komen's Reversal and Urges Catholics to Not Support the...
The Komen Foundation for the Cure has learned the hard way that you do not cross the pro-abortion lobby without suffering a swift reaction. After little more than 24 hours, Komen has reversed itself...
View ArticleThe Santorum Family and the Loss of Gabriel
One claim that has been directed toward Rick Santorum and his family on the campaign trail has been that there is a double-standard or even a hypocrisy regarding his position on abortion, because some...
View ArticleNCBC Statement on the HHS Mandates and the So-called Compromise
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (the NCBC) consistently has voiced its strong opposition to the mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that all employers provide insurance...
View ArticleThe Science of Dissent
We do not usually bother with the National Catholic Reporter, the newspaper of record for those who place their faith in dissent from the Catholic Church, but a recent column by Jamie L. Manson caught...
View ArticleFight for Religious Liberty Is Not Just Catholic
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop of New York, joined an alliance of over 500 Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Latter-Day...
View ArticleReligious Freedom from a Founder's Perspective
The National Catholic Bioethics Center posts here Thomas Jefferson’s "Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom," drafted in 1779, and passed by the Virginia Assembly in 1786. The document is...
View ArticleA Primer on the HHS Preventive Services Mandate
Archbishop William E. Lori, newly appointed Archbishop of Baltimore, and Chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, has produced an excellent primer on the...
View ArticleCall to Action: Stop the Violation of the Right to Religious Liberty
Last August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandated that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act almost all private health plans are to include with no co-pay...
View ArticleCardinal Donald Wuerl, Vice-chair of the NCBC, Addresses the Law Suit Filed...
Joining with 43 Catholic agencies, engaged in the numerous ministries of the Church, the Archdiocese of Washington is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for violating the Bill...
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Dr. Marie T. Hilliard, Director of Bioethics and Public Policy Receives...
On May 12, 2012, Dr. Marie T. Hilliard, Director of Bioethics and Public Policy for The National Catholic Bioethics Center, received the Doctor of Christian Ethics degree, honoris causa, from the...
View ArticleNCBC Collaborates with the National Catholic Partnership on Disability to...
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), partnering with the National Catholic Partnership on Disability (I Chair the NCPD Ethics Committee) has developed daily activities in which individuals...
View ArticleStudies Demonstrate the Need for Greater Rigor in Same-Sex Parenting Science...
The science used to cast homosexual parenting in a neutral or even positive light has proved unsound. Two recent studies, published in Social Science Research, challenge a position that is summarized...
View ArticleAre Journalists Now Scientists: A Reporter Loses Sight of Data on Plan B
There has been much talk erroneously concluding that the New York Times has proven that the abortifacient effect of the ingredients in Plan B (levonorgestrel) and ellaOne (ulipristal) 1 do not prevent...
View ArticleNCBC Response to the June 28 Ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court Upholding the...
The National Catholic Bioethics Center is deeply disappointed to learn that virtually the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains standing in the wake of the June 28, 2012 U. S....
View ArticleStay Connected & Protect Our Liberty: Text FREEDOM to 377377
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has created a method of instantaneous notification, via texting and e-mailing, to those committed to protecting the right to religious liberty. An invitation to...
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