Catholics will fast during the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday this week. (Chronicle file) Days before many Christians will take up fasting for Lent, researchers announced that the practice of fasting from food during some days and feasting during others

Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic and other religious institutions to prov

Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to pr

In the past few weeks, a firestorm has raged across the nation caused by the Obama administration's new health care policy requiring virtually every employer, including faith-based nonprofit organizations, colleges, social service agencies and soup kitch

WASHINGTON — Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) insti

WASHINGTON — Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions

WASHINGTON Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obamas birth control accommodation was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) instituti

GIVE him points for cleverness. President Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that stil

WASHINGTON – Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) insti

LAKE FOREST, Calif. Megachurch pastor Rick Warren has become an outsized evangelical superstar: best-selling author of "The Purpose Driven Life" series, pastoral mentor and political referee. Now Warren is finding a new purpose: tackling his outsized wai

WASHINGTON — Give him points for cleverness. President Obamas birth control accommodation was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to

Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to pr

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide m

Give him points for cleverness. President Barck Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to pro

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide m

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide m

Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to pr

Nonetheless, the accounting device worked politically. It took only a handful of compliant Catholic groups — Obamacare cheerleaders dying to return to the fold — to hail the alleged compromise, and hand Obama a major political victory. Give him points fo

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “ accommodation ” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide