Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This morning, the Health & Human Services Department announced it will drastically narrow its contraceptive mandate by providing further religious and moral exemptions to employers. Implemented under ...

Notre Dame lost its second legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, according to the school. Notre Dame tweeted on Monday that it was disappointed by the results of the ...

The Little Sisters of the Poor welcomed a Christmas blessing earlier this week that could help them end their near-14-year-religious-liberty battle with the U.S. government. On Monday afternoon, the ...

The Supreme Court famously upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in June. But in a year or two we may see another riveting Supreme Court drama growing out of the health law, this one driven by the ...

An illustration picture shows a woman holding a birth control pill at her home in Nice January 3, 2013. French health regulators are studying limiting the use of contraceptive pills that carry health ...

When the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) was enacted into law under the Obama administration in 2010, it included provisions requiring employer-provided health insurance policies to cover preventive ...

The Supreme Court is more likely to rule in favor of explicitly religious organizations instead of large corporations when it comes to Obamacare’s contraception mandate, Charles Krauthammer said ...

The dispute stems from a 2011 federal rule requiring employers to include contraception coverage in employee health plans under the Affordable Care Act. Sister Constance Veit (shown above) and other ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) A new federal appeals court ruling could put the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate to the test. The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals ...

Update: In a 5-4 decision penned by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court ruled that "closely held" corporations can't be required to provide contraceptive coverage, thanks to the 1993 ...

According to the Trump administration, even a company owned by millions of unrelated people can be a person of faith. Yesterday I posted about the Hobby Lobby decision, observing that it can’t be both ...