[i] The full title is “Interim Final Rules for Group Health Plans and Heath Insurance Issuers Relating to the Coverage of Preventive Services Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” The Interim Rules were originally released in July 2010. [ii] The Interim Final Rules does contain a grandfather clause …

July 17, 2012 Catholic News Service CLEVELAND — Wiping sweat from his brow in the stifling heat, parishioner Wojtek Fleszar held up his rosary from atop the pulpit near the main altar of St. Casimir Church, under the mural depicting God as king of creation and Jesus as savior of …

June 28, 2012 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 decision upholding the health reform law makes it even more urgent for Congress to act to fix the law’s “fundamental flaws” on abortion funding, conscience protection and immigrants’ access to health care, the U.S. bishops said.

June 26, 2012 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In what one observer called “the judicial equivalent of white smoke,” immigration advocates were largely happy with the June 25 Supreme Court ruling that struck down three key provisions of Arizona’s own immigration law.

June 20, 2012 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Expressing his “deep concern” about terrorist violence in Nigeria, Pope Benedict XVI urged an end to “the shedding of the blood of so many innocent people.”  

May 24, 2012 By Nancy Frazier O’Brien, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Here is a timeline of key events related to the health reform law and the Department of Health and Human Services’ requirement that contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilizations be covered free of charge in most health …

May 9, 2012 By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – The proposed funding cuts in programs that meet the needs of poor and vulnerable people being weighed in the House of Representatives fail a “basic moral test,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. …

A Mass of Christian Burial for Thomas Rains, a veteran social studies teacher at Badin High School, was celebrated April 18 at St. Peter in Chains Parish in Hamilton.

April 2, 2012 By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican spokesman praised Cuba’s decision to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s request to make Good Friday a national holiday this year.  

March 30, 2012 By Wallice J. de la Vega, Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – In this Caribbean nation of 11.3 million, one of the greatest challenges to Catholic evangelization comes from Cubans who practice traditional African religions.