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Survey on the HHS Mandate

TCA Survey Finds Strong Opposition to HHS Mandate

There is a growing consensus that the Catholic vote could be a deciding factor in the upcoming presidential election. Some have even called the Catholic vote "THE 2012 bellwether."

Where there is not consensus, however, is whether the Obama administration's approach with the HHS mandate, requiring employee healthcare coverage of contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs, is helping his electoral chances, especially with Catholics and women.

To the contrary, the results from our survey conducted by the Washington-based polling firm QEV Analytics indicates that the mandate is going to hurt more than help President Obama's level of support among Catholics and women.

Andy Garcia on the Movie About Freedom Hollywood Would Not Make

By Terence P. Jeffrey
May 11, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Andy Garcia’s new movie—co-starring Peter O’Toole and Eva Longoria—is an epic story of freedom that Hollywood would not make.

“It’s a completely independent film,” Garcia told CNSNews.com. “It is being distributed independently and it’s being financed independently.”

And it is the true story of men and women—and children--who lived 90 years ago in Mexico and whose struggle for liberty could echo powerfully in the United States today.

The movie is about the Cristeros, a group of reluctant and unlikely rebels who rose up against the government of Mexican President Plutarco Calles after he outlawed the free exercise of religion for Mexican Catholics.

With allegations of a ‘nun crackdown,’ the Vatican goes spring cleaning

The Washington Post

05/04/2012

With allegations of a ‘nun crackdown,’ the Vatican goes spring cleaning

By Ashley McGuire

If everyone could just calm down for a moment regarding the Vatican and nuns, perhaps we could all consider some facts.

First, the notion that the Vatican is only investigating the women within its ranks is incorrect. In fact, nuns are rather late in a string of investigations and internal changes the Vatican has been making in America over the past few years. In 2005 and 2006, the Vatican completed an apostolic visitation, or an investigation and evaluation, of American seminaries.

The Catholic vote is the 2012 bellwether

The Washington Post

The Catholic vote is the 2012 bellwether

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Rachel Weiner at 07:59 AM ET, 05/03/2012

Ask ten people to name the most critical swing voting bloc in the 2012 presidential election and you’re likely to get at least five — and maybe ten — different answers.

But, new polling from Gallup suggests that it’s Catholics who could well be the best bellwether of whether President Obama or former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will be elected president this November.

McGurn: Paul Ryan's Cross to Bear

The Wall Street Journal

May 1st, 2012

McGurn: Paul Ryan's Cross to Bear

The House budget chairman challenges the religious left.

Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: "We believe that Social Security legislation, now billed as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the idea of force and compulsion." The Wisconsin Republican went on to lament that "we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam," and that citizens justify what they get from the state by saying, "We got it coming to us."

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