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HHS Mandate – Preventative Healthcare?

This is a series of short talking points that we have provided to our volunteers as information they can use in speaking out in various ways against the ObamaCare mandate on contraception. Feel free to use, build on, or share. Contraception and sterilization are good, preventative healthcare. Just the opposite is true: contraception and sterilization…

HHS Mandate – Free Birth Control?

This is a series of short talking points that we have provided to our volunteers as information they can use in speaking out in various ways against the ObamaCare mandate on contraception. Feel free to use, build on, or share. Isn’t providing free birth control to women something that is good? First of all, the…

HHS Mandate – Religious Liberty

This begins a series of short talking points that we have provided to our volunteers as information they can use in speaking out in various ways against the ObamaCare mandate on contraception. Feel free to use, build on, or share. Why is this a religious liberty question? This mandate forces Catholics and others morally opposed…

Mandate Attacks Religious Freedom

Last Friday the Obama Administration announced that there would be no changes to its proposed mandate that all health insurance plans must provide coverage for contraception, abortion drugs, and sterilization (without a co-pay), despite an overwhelming outcry from citizens who rightly see this as an attack on their religious beliefs. As president of the U.S.…

CCL Participates in NFP Conference in Colombia

On October 5 and 6, CCL’s Director of International Development, Erick Carrero, had the honor of speaking at the Fourth Panamerican Encounter for Natural Family Planning at the Bolivariana Pontifical University in Medellin, Colombia. Organized this year through the university’s Institute for Marriage and Family, this event is put on by a network of NFP…

New Arkansas CCL Teachers Receive Bishop’s Blessing

CCL has been working diligently with volunteers in the state of Arkansas for over a year in order to prepare for an upcoming mandate in the Diocese of Little Rock for a full course in natural family planning as part of marriage preparation. Earlier this year we held a teacher training seminar in Little Rock,…

Bishops Speak Out Against Contraception Mandate

Congratulations to the U.S. bishops for the strongly worded comments they officially filed this week to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to the August 1 announcement that all health care plans must cover contraceptives and sterilizations under regulations for preventive care created in response to the 2010 health care legislation. In…

Institute of Medicine Recommends Mandating a Culture of Death

Wednesday’s news was full of the newest recommendations on women’s “preventive healthcare” (my quotes – more in a moment). Working under the rules created by the new healthcare legislation, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened an expert panel to develop recommendations for preventative measures the federal government should mandate to all insurance carriers. Among the…

Archbishop Sheehan Proclaims the Truth on Cohabitation

We ask you to join us in keeping Sante Fe Archbishop Michael Sheehan in your prayers as he faces criticism for taking a firm stand against cohabitation this past weekend. What Archbishop Sheehan did is simply speak the truth and provide the clear teaching on marriage, for which we at CCL thank him. He shows…