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INDEX The Catholic Difference ..................4 Guest Column: Accents ..................4 Letters to the Editor .......................4 Summer Reading: de Sales .......... 10 Q&A: Anthony Lilles ........................11 Vatican News .................................. 12 Nun of the Above quiz ...................13 Bulletin Board ................................. 14 JULY 2, 2014 114 Years of Service to the Gospel Volume XC - No. 24 www.DenverCatholicRegister.org I Follow us on INSIDE YOUTH ARCHBISHOP'S CATHOLIC APPEAL PAGE 7 PAGE 8 Future priests expand Hispanic ministry know-how PHOTO BY ROBERT LINN/DCR Youths try on new habit PASTORAL LETTER FAMILY: Become What You Are PAGES 2-3 PHOTO BY CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES LORI WINDHAM, center, senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, addresses the news media in front of the Supreme Court after the decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores June 30 in Washington, D.C. The high court ruled 5-4 that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law protecting religious freedom. BY CINDY BROVSKY Colorado's three Catholic bishops are unanimously prais- ing the "historic religious liberty decision" of the U.S. Supreme Court that allows for-profit busi- nesses to exercise their religious beliefs and not comply with the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraceptive mandate. "Businesses all across the United States express and act on moral views and the court acknowledged in its majority de- cision that there is no reason to deny that same freedom to com- panies whose moral convictions are based on religion," the bish- ops said in a statement released June 30 by the Colorado Catholic Conference. The conference speaks on be- half of Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, Bishop Michael Sher- idan of Colorado Springs and Bishop Stephen Berg of Pueblo. "The Church has an obligation to serve, and therefore, it needs the freedom to serve without government coercion of con- science and intrusion into re- ligious beliefs," the statement PRAYERS ANSWERED Supremes rule in favor of religious freedom See Freedom, Page 12

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