The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In response to Kathleen Parker's Feb. 7 column, “Komen, Catholics and the cost of conscience.” Parker is ...

As Heard On Morning Edition Listen • 0:00 Two prominent Catholic groups are finding themselves, once again, on opposite sides of a key issue regarding the Affordable Care Act. Three years ago, the ...

The archbishop and auxiliary bishop are hoping these entreaties move President Barack Obama to reverse a mandate that even health care plans in Catholic-affiliated institutions fund birth control as ...

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the United States have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed. A new ...

Eighty-three percent of U.S. Catholics say the church should allow the use of birth control, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll. Gianna B via Unsplash Most U.S. Catholics disagree with ...

The Vatican’s timing was ironic. While Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. were trying to revive their moral and political clout last week by battling President Obama over contraception coverage and ...

More than 40 Catholic groups and institutions have filed federal lawsuits over an HHS mandate that requires employers to provide female employees health insurance coverage for contraceptives, claiming ...

The more than 40 Catholic institutions that filed federal lawsuits this week against the Obama administration have instigated “a big political and Constitutional moment,” according to an editorial in ...

(Reuters) - Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, will cut off birth-control coverage for its employees in July, a move that has divided faculty members ...