• Conscience Protection
      On January 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reaffirmed a rule that virtually all private health care plans must cover sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception. The rule is set to take effect August 1, 2012. Non-profit religious employers that do not now provide such coverage, and are not exempt under the rule’s extremely narrow definition of religious employer, will be given one year—until August 1, 2013—to comply.

      Never before has federal law forced citizens to purchase what violates their deeply held beliefs and ethical convictions. But now the Administration is forcing us to act as if pregnancy were a disease to be prevented at all costs. For many Americans that means choosing between violating our consciences and forgoing health care -- literally an unconscionable dilemma.

      Our country's longstanding laws protecting conscience rights must now apply fully to the implementation of health care reform. For that we need more than rule-making, we need a law. The bishops are urging Congress to support the "Respect for Rights of Conscience Act" in light of the new HHS rule and the "unprecedented threat to religious freedom" it poses.

      Click here to go to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Conscience Protection Page.

      Click here to send messages to your U.S. Representatives to urge support for the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act.

    • News
      • End of Life Care: A Spiritual, Medical, and Legal Perspective
        February 7, 2012
        Four panelists will facilitate a discussion on a variety of issues of health care at the end of life - Advanced Directives, Organ and Tissue Donation, Code Status, Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, Communication, and more
      • Week One
        February 1, 2012
        Join us for a simple supper at 6:00pm in Wagner Hall, followed by age appropriate break out sessions. Topic: “Christian Morality, Sin, Grace, & Virtue”
      • School Open House
        January 29, 2012
        See what Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School has to offer your child. Join us for an Open House Jan 29th, 12:00pm-3:00pm.
      • Joy-Filled Marriage - Retreat for Engaged Couples
        January 27, 2012
        Engaged couples are invited to a full-day retreat at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church based on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. The program, called A Joy-Filled Marriage, will be facilitated by Fr. Eric Augenstein on Saturday, February 25, 2012 from 9:00 am-4:00 pm in Ed Day Hall, the parish center basement at Our Lady.
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