Mark Silk responds to the U.S. Catholic bishops’ latest statement on religious freedom.
The bishops are mounting a crusade for religious freedom (1) in regard to Catholic educational, health-care, and social services whose religious character (especially of Catholic colleges, universities, and hospitals) church authorities routinely suspect and whose personnel they constantly alienate; (2) in regard to forms of exemption that are hugely expansive and highly debatable; and (3) in regard to church teachings that fewer and fewer Catholics accept. This is not an obvious formula for success.
Peter Steinfels, “The Bishops & Religious Freedom”
Source: commonwealmagazine.org
There is a healthy struggle brewing among the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops. A previously silent group, upset over conservative colleagues defining the church’s public posture and eagerly picking fights with President Barack Obama, has had enough.
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Cathleen Kaveny on ‘Employment Division v. Smith’—the eye of the religious-freedom storm.
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