Participants in the February 2016 conference, "Conscience and Catholic Health Care: From Clinical Contexts to Government Mandates." Conscience issues abound in Catholic health care in a pluralist ...

From the last two national elections to the current controversy over health care reform, the struggle over the Roman Catholic conscience in American politics has been in full public view. Too often in ...

In this file photo, Father Corneille Boyeye, chaplain at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, N.Y., and a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, anoints the hands of Cecilia ...

A health care worker administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a Marymount University student in one of the athletic buildings on the Catholic university’s Arlington, Va., campus, during a ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The announcement of a new conscience protection rule May 2 protecting health care workers who object to abortion procedures on religious grounds was welcome news to U.S. Catholic ...

Obama administration critics say the president misled his religious supporters in a 2009 Notre Dame speech, in which he supported conscience protections and “common ground” on issues like abortion.

Editor's note: San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy delivered the following talk Feb. 6 at the Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture at the University of San Diego. Entitled, "Conscience, ...

MIAMI (EWTN News)—President Barack Obama has not kept his promises about conscience protections for abortion opponents, and those who trusted him to exclude abortion from the health-care bill seem to ...

Cardinal Donald Wuerl is archbishop of Washington. From an early age, Catholics are taught to see God in their neighbor. The Catholic faith finds its fullest expression in a loving act of sacrifice by ...