As the contraception contretemps continues, there is another Catholic story that deserves just as much mention: The role of U.S. women religious (and women religious the world over) in the fight against sex trafficking, most of whose victims are women and children.Sister Pat Bergen of the Sisters of St.

There has been a wide range of reactions to the news that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a well-known charity devoted to ending breast cancer, has severed ties with Planned Parenthood, ending what had been a very controversial relationship.

As the controversy over the HHS rule requiring church sponsored hospitals, universities, and social services agencies to provide birth control coverage to employees continues, with bishops denouncing it left and right and refusing to comply, the Diocese of Kansas City in Missouri is asking for public money to defray tuition costs and boost enrollment at area Catholic schools.You know the sayi

You may have heard by now that the U.S. Catholic bishops aren't too thrilled (to put it mildly) with the Obama administration's refusal to grant a broader religious exemption to the mandate that employee health care plans include coverage of contraception.