Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2012, when the Obama administration proposed regulations that required employer-provided health insurance plans to cover contraception, Catholic companies such as affiliated universities and EWTN Broadcasting, which believed they should be exempt from the law, sued the government, while Catholic religious leaders campaigned against it in church.
Joe Biden – Roman Catholic [124] Biden is a lifelong Catholic, with Reuters describing his religious beliefs as "well-known and documented". [125] Catholic social teaching has been cited as a major influence on his political views. [126] In 2008, he was reported to regularly attend Sunday Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
On July 15, a group of 69 civil rights organizations and religious groups urged the President to take a different course by not only providing no exemption for religious groups and also rescinding the exemptions for religious groups put in place by President George W. Bush in his Executive Order 13279 in 2002.
Obama said he had a problem with men who are "coming up with all kinds of excuses" to sit out the election or to vote for Trump.
Religious tensions arose once again in 1960 when the Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy, a Catholic who was elected. In 2004, with the nomination of John Kerry by the Democrats, who was at odds with the Church in the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage, his Catholic religion failed to attract significant votes, as slightly more Catholics ...
There seems to already be some political controversy surrounding the pope's visit.
Reliable data on religious demography is difficult to obtain because an official nationwide census has not been conducted in decades. U.S. government estimates indicate a population of approximately 30.4 million, with Sunni Muslims comprising 80% of the population, Shia Muslims making up about 19%, and other religious groups comprising less than 1%.