Here, updated from the first Fortnight for Freedom, are 21 ideas - some pious, some civic, some basic, some fun - for defending religious liberty and engendering "a new birth of freedom."
Class on Religious Liberty this Sunday, Men's Club Breakfast this Sunday, Baptismal Preparation Class next Thursday, Special Collection next weekend for Peter's Pence.
The Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Serve will take place from June 21 to July 4, 2014, a time when our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power...
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- During their June 11-13 spring general assembly in New Orleans, the nation's Catholic bishops voted to extend their Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty and to approve work on a limited revision of their quadrennial document aimed at guiding Catholics in election decisions.
10-30-2012: The Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that most large employers include in their health plans, at no cost, pharmaceutical contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and certain forms of so-called "emergency contraception." Catholic philosophers and theologians have been debating whether complying with the mandate would be morally acceptable. They usually begin by asking whether complying would be "formal" or "material" cooperation with evil. If formal, then complying with the mandate is ruled out. (More... click on title.)