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California’s Fault Line: Pro-Abortion Profs Split Jesuit Colleges, Brought on Abortion Mandate

Although the U.S. bishops rightfully called it “shocking,” the Obama administration’s refusal last week to enforce federal law against California’s abortion mandate was calculated and predictable. California accomplished what the Obama administration could not with the HHS mandate: full coverage of abortions in employee health plans, even at Catholic churches and institutions.

The Fight for Religious Freedom in Catholic Schools

We are now in the Fortnight for Freedom — a two-week period the U.S. bishops have set aside for Catholics to appreciate our God-given right to religious freedom, the “first freedom” affirmed by the Bill of Rights. Our First Amendment freedoms are endangered in a myriad of ways today, and the threats to Catholic schools are greater than many realize. While the immediate risk to their freedoms may seem to be primarily from radical sexual activists, this public spectacle is simply an indicator of a deeper threat within.


Clarity and Depth From Aquinas Needed in Catholic Education Today

Jesus taught, “[L]ife is more than food, and the body more than clothing” (Lk 12:23). Likewise, education is more than jobs; catechesis is more than shared experience. What happened to the Socratic axiom, “The unexamined life is not worth living”? On a higher plane, God created the human mind for the pursuit and attainment of truth.

Thomas Aquinas College Outlines Threats Posed by Calif. Bill

In interviews published recently with Catholic News Agency and the National Catholic Register, Quincy Masteller, general counsel of the Newman Guide-recommended Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) in Santa Paula, Calif., outlined how a bill being considered in California threatens the ability of faith-based colleges in the state to operate according to their religious missions.

Latest News from Around the Web:

• Is Georgetown a Nourishing Mother or Not? (Catholic Standard)
• Georgetown Still Atoning for 1838 Slave Sale (Campus Reform)
• Catholic Universities Examine Sexual Assault, Misconduct Environments (Catholic News Service)
• Universities’ War Against Truth (The Spectator)
• Catholic School in Italy Fined for Firing Gay Teacher (Religion News Service)
• Catholic U Prof: There Is Really ‘No Expectation’ of Fidelity in Gay Marriages (Christian Post)
• How Catholic Education Forms Mind, Body and Soul (Angelus News)
• New AP European History Framework Ignores Religion, Snubs Churchill, Whitewashes Communism: REPORT (The College Fix)

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