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EPPC Scholars Submit Comment Opposing Proposed Rule Mandating OTC Contraception Coverage 

Eric Kniffin

On December 27, 2024, EPPC Scholars Eric Kniffin, Natalie Dodson, and Jamie Bryan Hall submitted a public comment opposing a…

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PDF / January 7, 2025

EPPC Scholar Submits Comment on the Department of Agriculture’s Nondiscrimination Policy

Natalie Dodson

On December 23, 2024, EPPC scholar Natalie Dodson submitted a public comment on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources…

PDF / January 6, 2025

EPPC Scholar Submits Public Comment on SAMHSA Zero Suicide Program

Natalie Dodson

On December 20, 2024, EPPC scholar Natalie Dodson submitted a public comment on the U.S. Department of Health and Human…

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PDF / January 6, 2025

EEOC Says Title VII’s Religious-Organization Exemption Doesn’t Apply to Sex Discrimination Claims

Rachel N. Morrison

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency tasked with preventing and remedying employment discrimination, recently filed an amicus brief in the…

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National Review Online / December 18, 2024

Embassy Vatican: Some Demystifications

George Weigel

A change of presidential administrations typically leads to changes in U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, especially at the ambassadorial level. This,…

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Syndicated Column / December 18, 2024

The Problem with Comfort and Joy

Francis X. Maier

Year in and year out, the weeks of Advent and Christmas are a time for carols.  In our home, they…

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The Catholic Thing / December 18, 2024

’55 and ’69 Liturgical Reforms Uprooting Oral Custom

Jennifer Bryson

When the twentieth-century liturgical reformers shuffled, eliminated, and renamed Catholic feast days, they weakened the already increasingly frail connection between…

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OnePeterFive / December 17, 2024