Religious Liberty Articles
Blog, Education
In an article published by Washington Examiner, TCA’s Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie writes an article titled “In Florida, parents are...
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Blog, Religious Liberties
In an article published by National Review, TCA’s Ashley McGuire discusses “The Baseless Attacks on Catholic Hospitals”. She writes: Catholic hospitals...
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Blog, Education
In response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that Maine’s tuition assistance program cannot exclude schools on the basis of...
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Ashley McGuire, Authors, Blog, Education, Religious Liberties
Today, the Supreme Court made a decision in the Carson v. Makin case which will allow Maine taxpayers to fund...
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Ashley McGuire, Blog, Education
In a piece published by the National Review, TCA’s Ashley McGuire reflects on this year’s Catholic Schools Week. She wrote:...
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Ashley McGuire, Blog, Education
In an article published by Fox News, TCA’s Ashley McGuire urges the Supreme Court to strengthen school options for parents....
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Blog, Healthcare
Ashley McGuire joined Fox & Friends to discuss her article for The Wall Street Journal about mask mandates and the threats to young children’s health....
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Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare
In National Review, Grazie argued that Catholic schools must resist curricula designed to sow animosity and division. Catholic schools draw on...
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Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare
In a disappointing move, the Biden administration proposed a new rule which will require medical professionals to act against their...
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Blog, Education
The pandemic has created major educational challenges, but Catholic schools have been leading the way with safe in-person learning. In the Washington Times Senior...
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Blog, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
A recent case that has gone before the Supreme Court is pitting religious liberty against same-sex marriage regarding foster care....
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Ashley McGuire, Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties, Uncategorized
“Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies should not be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs. Today the Supreme Court...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Almost 50 years after Roe v. Wade, more than 100,000 people will walk through Washington today in support...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Education, News, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Unless you are the parent of a student at a Catholic school, you...
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Education, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
By Maureen Ferguson It is a grand Washington, DC tradition. Every year, on the first Sunday in October, Catholic and...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Dr. Grazie Christie appeared on EWTN to discuss a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform procedures that...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties
The Catholic Association has filed an amicus brief in the case of Sharonell Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, asking the...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Will Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services soon have to close its foster care program – a program or...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Should a 93-year-old World War I monument in the shape of a cross be leveled to the...
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Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
June 20, 2019 “In saving the historic Bladensburg Peace Cross from the American Humanists’ bulldozers, the Supreme Court has brought...
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Abortion, Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire Rep. Ilhan Omar is developing quite a track record for demonizing entire swaths of America, and her...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties, The Global Church
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Saly and Rahma are like so many young American university students. In their second year at Catholic...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Religious Liberties, The Global Church
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer This Tuesday a three-judge panel of Pakistan’s Supreme Court will decide whether to reconsider its acquittal of...
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Maureen Ferguson, Religious Liberties
By Maureen Ferguson The religious beliefs of nominees have suddenly become fair game in the judicial confirmation process. Consider the...
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Ashley McGuire, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire Democrats just keep outdoing themselves. In the domain of anti-Catholic bigotry, that is. Until recently, it was...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, News, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie A federal rule was just published in the Federal Register. A single rule in a document that runs over...
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Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire Among the crop of newly elected men and women headed to the Senate in 2019, one stands...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Wayne Thomas was the answer to 3-year-old Brittany’s prayer more than 25 years ago. Brittany prayed for someone to...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer October 22, 2018 In the end, the dignity of women lies at the heart of the #metoo movement. Yes,...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Education, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie Parents sending their children off to the University of Iowa this month will be glad to...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer “It is a dangerous time to be a person of faith.” These were the...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties, The Church, The Church in America
By Grazie Pozo Christie Child welfare advocates across the country are right to be concerned after a recent court order allowed...
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Abortion, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Ashley McGuire, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
June 26, 2018 “The Supreme Court has delivered another resounding win for freedom, this time upholding the right of pro-life...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Tuesday’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision overturning a California law that required pro-life pregnancy centers to provide women...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer If you live or work in the Washington, at one point or another, you’ve...
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Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suingMichigan’s Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt...
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Abortion, Healthcare, Life, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
By Maureen Ferguson There is a growing cognitive dissonance in the pro-choice crowd. They preach choice, but practice coercion. In...
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Blog, Human Dignity, Life, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
What do a lawyer, an author, a senior policy advisor and a doctor have in common? They’re the women at...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Christie The new Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Alex Azar, is speaking to the members of the...
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Abortion, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer There are more than 2000 pro-life pregnancy resource centers across the United States that offer women compassionate and comprehensive...
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Abortion, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie I will be marching this Friday along with hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans at the...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire Ebony was 26 when she found herself facing an unplanned pregnancy. Today, she is the unwitting embodiment...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire Mansplain it. That is what Xavier Becerra and Josh Shapiro, attorneys general for California and Pennsylvania will do until they...
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Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
By Ashley McGuire Step aside Ebenezer, there’s a new Scrooge in town. This Advent, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., was forced to...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, News, Religious Liberties, The Church, The Church in America
By Grazie Pozo Christie The rate at which Christmas is being leached of spiritual meaning and replaced with frenzied online shopping isn’t...
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Abortion, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Grazie Pozo Christie and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer The Supreme Court announced last week that it will consider whether the state of California...
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Abortion, Healthcare, Life, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
By Maureen Malloy Ferguson Finally, there is something reasonable pro-choice and pro-life folks should be able to agree upon. Lawmakers...
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Ashley McGuire, Education, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
By Ashley McGuire Catholic students can still be Catholic at Georgetown University. That’s basically what the school’s Student Activities Commission decided Thursday evening...
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Abortion, Blog, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
“The new rule from HHS repeals the government’s fine on religious employers and charities. America is not a country that...
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Abortion, Blog, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Ann Corkery I wonder how Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have responded to the Catholic baiting employed by two of his...
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Abortion, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Ashley McGuire, Blog, Life, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer US News and World Report So much for the sisterhood. In a confirmation...
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Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties, The Church, The Global Church
By Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie The canonization of Mother Teresa a year ago by Pope Francis was a momentous occasion for Catholics....
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Blog, Christian Persecution, Human Dignity, News, Religious Liberties
BY ANDREA PICCIOTTI-BAYER The nomination of Governor Sam Brownback for ambassador at-large for international religious freedom (IRF) provides a bright light of...
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Blog, Christian Persecution, Human Dignity, News, Religious Liberties, The Church, The Global Church
July 26, 2017 “There has never been a more important time for the United States to promote religious freedom as...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Blog, News, Religious Liberties
By ANDREA PICCIOTTI-BAYER In a new book, three scholars make the argument that a pluralistic society can be both pragmatic and...
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Blog, Education, News, Religious Liberties
“Today’s win is a significant victory for fairness and government neutrality towards religious institutions, confirming that children at a Lutheran...
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Ashley McGuire, Education, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties, The Church, The Church in America
By Ashley McGuire Those who recently attended an Easter Vigil service no doubt got a taste of what it’s like...
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Blog, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
May 4, 2017 “Today’s executive order provides welcome relief to the Little Sisters of the Poor, who have been threatened...
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Abortion, Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Blog, News, Religious Liberties
On April 3, The Catholic Association, in conjunction with Baltimore attorney Jack Terziu, filed its first-ever friend of the court...
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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Christian Persecution, News, Religious Liberties, The Global Church
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture and the Religious Freedom Institute just held...
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Ashley McGuire, News, Religious Liberties
By Ashley McGuire When a recent out of town visitor stepped onto my daughter’s school playground, she gasped at the...
detailspreview Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, News, Religious Liberties
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer On Wednesday, April 19, the Supreme Court—fully seated with nine Justices including Justice Gorsuch—will hear oral argument...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, News, Religious Liberties, The Global Church
By Grazie Pozo Christie For Christians around the world, Holy Week, beginning on Palm Sunday and ending on Easter, is...
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Blog, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Education, News, Religious Liberties
American schoolchildren ought to have access to a quality education in a safe and nurturing environment — yet too many...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Featured, Healthcare, News
By Grazie Christie The Trump Administration issued a new guidance that reverses the Obama-era directive requiring schools to allow children suffering from...
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Religious Liberties
“We are confident that rep. Price will finally put an end to the anti-religious liberty HHS mandate, as well as...
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Ashley McGuire, Blog, Religious Liberties
During a special edition of ABC News Strait Talk Detroit, LZ Granderson speaks to TCA’s Ashley McGuire about how...
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Blog, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
The Freedom from Religion Foundation folks must have been licking their chops the day they heard about the Arizona Department...
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Blog, Healthcare, Life, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
It is beyond outrageous that Senate Democrats are blocking $1.1 billion in supplemental Zika funding because they are demanding an...
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Ashley McGuire, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
Today’s Supreme Court decision makes it clear that the government must back off and allow people the freedom to practice...
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Healthcare, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
According to a new Marist poll, the majority of Americans side with the Little Sisters of the Poor in their fight...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Yesterday, the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious groups that just want to get back to their ministries...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Today in oral argument, Justice Kennedy and Chief Justice Roberts suggested that the government was “hijacking” the healthcare plan of...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, Maureen Ferguson, News, Religious Liberties
The Obama administration will make a remarkable argument in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, shattering concepts of ‘separation of church...
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Abortion, Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
An initial review of President Obama’s selection of Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court raises grave...
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Abortion, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties
Planned Parenthood, an abortion organization caught harvesting and selling baby body parts, has demonstrated time and again that it does...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
They’re back. Actually they never went away. But until last Friday, people had more or less forgotten about the...
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Abortion, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, Life, News, Religious Liberties, The Global Church
As a radiologist in Miami, working mainly with a lower income population, many of my female ultrasound patients are...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Education, News, Religious Liberties
The saga in San Francisco continues, with the self-appointed enforcers of the New Intolerance attacking Archbishop Cordileone for trying to...
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Education, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
California is always a great state to watch, as things that happen there tend to be harbingers for the other...
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Christian Persecution, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
Having firmly come out in favor of Charlie Hebdo‘s right to poke fun, sometimes quite maliciously, at the world’s major...
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Abortion, Healthcare, Life, Maureen Ferguson, News
The 20-week ultrasound in our first pregnancy began as a joyful event, but quickly turned into one of those punched-in-the-gut...
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Christian Persecution, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Education, Human Dignity, News, Religious Liberties
Here in Miami, there’s a Wall of Martyrs in our son’s Jesuit high school, lined with pictures of handsome young...
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Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
President Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador for International Religious Freedom is drawing...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
As a physician for mainly lower income patients I am living and working on the frontlines of Obamacare. Our office...
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Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
The national pro-life community in the United States is celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Obama...
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Abortion, Healthcare, Life, News
Washington D.C., Jun 26, 2014 / 04:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A unanimous Supreme Court decision striking down a 35-foot buffer...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
As David Green heads to the Supreme Court toda to defend the way he runs his company, consider the parallel...
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Ashley McGuire, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Women supporting employers challenging the government’s contraception mandate spoke out in support of a vision of women’s equality that supports...
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Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Activists from around the country, from pro-life groups to Tea Party Patriots, plan to be on-hand on Tuesday for a...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
This week marks the fourth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Like much of the rest of the country, I...
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Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie, Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent ruling, issuing a stay on the fines for the Little Sisters of the Poor, struck some...
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Healthcare, News, Religious Liberties, The Church in America
Whatever are you to do when you’re a journalist who favors Team Obama but the administration is going up against...
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