“Catholic Church” on The Daily Caller

Which part of the U.S. Constitution guarantees women the right to have other people pay for their birth control pills and abortifacients? Which part says that the federal government has the power to force religious employers to violate their beliefs or face fines? (more)

New York Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution told The Daily Caller that the Catholic Church “cannot impose their religious views” on employees by refusing to offer health plans that cover contraception, as required by the health care law. (more)

President Barack Obama says he will bypass religious groups’ opposition to a health insurance mandate by directing insurance companies to hand out free birth control services to employees of religious institutions. (more)

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, applauded President Barack Obama’s sidestep today in the growing fight over state regulation of churches. (more)

White House officials say they to plan to bypass church opposition to a contraceptive mandate in the president’s health care overhaul by directing insurance companies to hand out free birth control services to employees of religious institutions. (more)

Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Graves told The Daily Caller that he thinks President Barack Obama “duped” the American people with the recent rule about contraception that has sparked controversy between the Catholic Church and the administration. (more)

Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart told The Daily Caller on Thursday that the Obama administration’s recent clashes with the Catholic Church are “a form of thuggery” against religious Americans. (more)

In his recent rhetoric, the president has presented a choice to America: either embrace his vision of an ever-expanding federal government, or get ready for a world where “you’re on your own.” (more)

President Barack Obama’s deputies and his progressive allies are trying to convert the damaging controversy over federal regulation of religious groups into an advantageous fight against Catholic bishops over access to contraception. (more)

Speaker of the House John Boehner accused President Barack Obama of attacking religious freedom in a rare speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday over the contraceptives brouhaha. (more)

Acknowledging that it is “not good for Democrats” to go “head-to-head” with “any church,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Daily Caller that he and his Democratic caucus “totally” support President Barack Obama forcing religious institutions to cover contraception in employee health insurance plans or pay a federal fine. (more)

In politics, the Waterloo metaphor is often overused, blindly lobbed by political opponents hoping to make a candidate’s or politician’s blunder the decisive sign of defeat or the ending of a political career. But is it possible that Obama’s latest battle with religious liberty is a sign of the president’s political decline? (more)

The office of the Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Army forbade Catholic chaplains from reading, in Sunday masses, a letter about a controversial Obamacare mandate from the Catholic Church’s military archbishop. The move, which amounts to the head of Roman Catholic military chaplains calling the Obama administration un-American, will set the stage for a philosophical conflict between Catholic soldiers and their commander-in-chief. (more)

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday tried to shut down growing opposition to the president’s decision to force religious groups to pay fines if they decline to comply with a policy regarding health insurance and contraception. (more)

The American bishops are now reacting strongly against the new Health and Human Services mandate forcing religious institutions to provide health insurance coverage for contraception to their employees. A few thoughts: (more)

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, a Mormon facing doubts about his conservative credentials, said Saturday he had the endorsement of five former US ambassadors to the Vatican. (more)

It’s time for another Maureen Dowd column. This time, I think I’ll write it for her. (more)

Daniel Webster was the most famous lawyer of his day. In 1819, the “Godlike Daniel” stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued passionately for the right of Dartmouth College to govern itself, and not to be brought under the rule of the New Hampshire legislature. Webster appealed to the Constitution, arguing that New Hampshire’s actions would violate the provision that forbade states to “impair the obligations of contract.” But the emotional power of his argument caught the attention of Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Joseph Story — and, in truth, captured the hearts of the country. (more)

Mexico City could soon gut the meaning of the age-old wedding vow, “Till death do us part.” (more)

On September 14, officials from the Vatican met with the leaders of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics, to present a proposal for the group’s full reunification with the Church. If successful, the pope will have healed a near-schism and brought 1 million energized Catholics back into the fold. (more)