U S Bishops vow to fight HHS edict as a matter of freedom of conscience and religion they nbsp say it is unconscionable to force citizens to buy contraceptives against their will Statement follows WASHINGTON mdash The Catholic bishops of the United States called ldquo literally unconscionable

In what will probably come as a shock to Catholic supporters of the Obama administration Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that H H S apparently intends to stand by a controversial interim position on the wording of a religious exemption for employ

For years managers of hedge funds or private equity funds like Mitt Romney have enjoyed a privileged federal tax rate on so-called ldquo carried interest rdquo But that 15 percent rate while legal is also grossly unfair to virtually all other taxpayers It is unfair because it allows these ma

A few days late on this but still worth highlighting From the archives the editors on the death of Martin Luther King Jr The prophet speaks to men for God Men are never sure that they wish to hear what God says to them They sense that God s message will not be altogether comfortable So men s

January 17 2002 marks the fiftieth anniversary of President John F Kennedy rsquo s executive order granting federal government employees the right to organize Sort of The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 or Wagner Act granted many categories of workers the right to organize and bargain colle

Cambridge Ma Readers of this blog will have noticed over the years that I have no inside connections in Rome or in the Vatican Most of what I know about such things I get by reading periodicals such as America blogs at this site and from the Jesuit grape vine I rsquo ve only been to Rome twice