Mount St. Mary's Seeks Recognition As Religious To Avoid Obamacare Contraception Mandate

Mount St. Mary’s University is following what happens since Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stalled the contraceptive mandate proscribed in the Affordable Care Act as it applies to religious groups’ health insurance policies.

The university’s position hangs on the definition of religious, Mount St. Mary’s President Thomas Powell said in a telephone interview.

Although the university does not mandate religious education and sacraments, it operates one of the nation’s largest seminary for Catholic priests and was founded by a Catholic who fled religious persecution in France, Powell said.
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