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Little Sisters of the Poor
BY KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The federal health care law doesn't infringe on the religious freedom of faith-based nonprofit organizations that object to covering birth control in employee health plans, a federal appeals court in Denver ruled Tuesday.
Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a challenge by an order of Catholic nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, to a federal regulation implementing the Affordable Care Act's (a.k.a Obamacare's) contraception mandate. Is the Little Sisters' case likely to
assisted suicide
WASHINGTON – As states around the country consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide, "death with dignity" looks markedly different for patients under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor. In her 27 years with the order that cares for the "elderly poor," Sister Constance Veit, L.S.
Obamacare
(RNS) — The Little Sisters will lose. In the Supreme Court, that is. How do I know this? OK, let's back up. In the biggest decision of its 2013-2014 term, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that a for-profit corporation that objects to provisions of a federal law as impairing
Massachusetts
Should Catholic nuns be forced to include contraceptives in their health insurance plans? The government thinks so and has spent the better part of the past two years trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to do just that. For over 175 years, the Little Sisters, an international
Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon have another opportunity to determine the legal contours of religious liberty in America. On Friday, the Court announced that it will consider the arguments of Christian-affiliated institutions that they should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate of Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as
congress
Washington D.C. — Pope Francis paid a short visit to the Little Sisters of the Poor community in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to support them in their court case over the contraception mandate, the Vatican's spokesman revealed. It was a "short visit that was not in
Abortion
Denver — On Friday a group of Roman Catholic nuns won a temporary reprieve from the controversial contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The August 21 ruling by the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit means that the Little Sister of the Poor, a group
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