EWTN, State of Alabama File New Lawsuit Against HHS Mandate | Daily News | NCRegister.com

“EWTN has no other option but to continue our legal challenge to the mandate,” said EWTN chairman and CEO Michael Warsaw, in a statement released on Oct. 28. “The revised rules, published by the government in July, have done nothing to address the serious issues of conscience and religious freedom that EWTN has been raising since the mandate was first published last year.”

Alabama’s Attorney General Strange said in a statement, “I am proud to stand with EWTN to oppose this unconscionable mandate. Whatever we personally may think about contraception and abortion-inducing drugs, the government should not be in the business of forcing people to violate their religious convictions.”

via EWTN, State of Alabama File New Lawsuit Against HHS Mandate | Daily News | NCRegister.com.

Whispers in the Loggia: Let There Be Peace!

Whispers in the Loggia: Let There Be Peace!.

Let There Be Peace!

…and to the place for which Peter has called – repeatedly – on this appointed day of prayer and fasting for peace, may the Church now built upon Francis know the grace to follow.

Taking the lead on his request for “all the local churches” to join along, here below is live video from St Peter’s Square of the Pope’s Vigil for Peace “in Syria, across the Middle East and throughout the whole world”: