NEWSMAX / BLOOMBERG: …In a statement, Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling called Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Brian Cogan’s ruling a “thoughtful decision” and that non-exempt Catholic health and educational organizations “have religious freedom rights.”
Cogan barred the government from enforcing the mandate against Catholic Health Care System, Catholic Health Services of Long Island, Cardinal Spellman High School and Monsignor Farrell High School.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the health and educational groups challenged the mandate on religious freedom grounds. The U.S. issued a rule exempting the archdiocese later, but schools and health-care affiliates were still subject to the law, which takes effect Jan. 1… (more)
