Media Appearances
Publications
Eliminating Medical Conscience Rights Threatens Human Dignity Writes Louis Brown in The Hill Newspaper
CMF Executive Director Louis Brown wrote an opinion editorial, "Eliminating Medical Conscience Rights Threatens Human Dignity and the Freedom to Love," in The Hill newspaper which covers Congress. He wrote: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected...
Defending Catholic Healthcare | Commentary by Wesley J. Smith for First Things
February 1, 2022 Wesley J. Smith wrote a commentary, "Defending Catholic Healthcare" in First Things that "The threats against religious freedom in the United States have become so acute that five major Catholic organizations have formed the Catholic Health Care...
Should Catholic Health Care Survive? | Commentary by Richard Doerflinger
Mr. Doerflinger wrote a commentary on saving Catholic health care for Catholic News Service which was syndicated and published in a number of Catholic publications including the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Catholic Philly January 28, 2022 Should Catholic health care...
New Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance Emerges | National Catholic Register
“We believe that the alliance will be an instrument of greater collaboration of best practices within Catholic health care,” said Louis Brown. Peter Jesserer Smith | News | January 20, 2022 WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
Coalition to protect, advance Catholic health care launches | Catholic News Agency
This Alliance brings together the best minds in medicine, law, business, and theology. By Shannon Mullen, Carl Bunderson Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2022 / 16:38 pm Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, and the leaders of five Catholic medical or professional...
Supreme Court halts Biden vaccine-or-test policy for businesses, allows mandate for health care workers | Catholic News Agency
By Shannon Mullen, Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 13, 2022 / 13:20 pm The Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden's sweeping vaccine-or-test mandate businesses, while allowing a new federal rule to go forward that requires millions of U.S. health...
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Liberalizing International and Foreign Abortion Laws in the Time of Coronavirus: Are Women Any Safer Than Before? Louis Brown Joins Georgetown University Panel
Louis Brown recently joined a panel hosted by Georgetown Right to Life Watch the segment below to watch the panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVw9eNachE Georgetown Right to Life Panel, March 19, 2021
Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement & Reflection on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Ministry – Louis Brown and Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement | Join Louis Brown and Kathryn Jean Lopez in this discussion of the one truth that the Rev. Dr. King’s ministry was founded upon: the truth that perfect love casts out all fear. Right now our nation urgently needs to reject...
Christ Medicus Foundation statement on Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo – EWTN News Nightly
EWTN News Nightly recently featured an excerpt from the CMF Statement regarding the Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo as it relates to religious freedom and public health. “Now is the time for Americans to stand for the principle that our country must both safeguard public...
Jordan Buzza discusses Health Care Civil Rights Task Force on EWTN News Nightly
Jordan Buzza, recently spoke with EWTN News Nightly about the new Health Care Civil Rights Task Force A new partnership of organizations is announcing a nationwide initiative to protect the health, dignity, civil rights and religious freedoms of patients and families....
Louis Brown speaks at Legatus Business Conference – A New Birth for Civil Rights
Louis Brown, recently spoke at the Legatus Business Leadership Institute Virtual Conference At the recent Legatus Business Leadership Virtual Conference, Mr. Brown delivered an urgent call for all Americans to love and defend the dignity of all people through a new...
A New Birth for Civil Rights with Louis Brown at Napa Institute Summer Conference
Christ Medicus Foundation Executive Director, Louis Brown, recently spoke about A New Birth for Civil Rights at the 2020 Napa Institute Summer Conference. Mr. Brown delivered an urgent call for all Americans to love and defend the dignity of all people through a new...
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Religious Freedom and Rights of Conscience in Health Care – Louis Brown on Faith & Politics Podcast
Faith & Politics Podcast | South Dakota Catholic Conference | Religious Freedom and Rights of Conscience in Health Care Louis Brown, CMF Executive Director, and Faith & Politics host, Chris Motz discuss Christian identity in a time of challenge and conflict;...
Michael Vacca Discusses Religious Liberty During COVID-19 on Bioethics on Air (Part 1)
Michael Vacca, CMF Director of Ministry and Bioethics, joined Joe Zalot of the Bioethics on Air podcast on December 15th from the National Catholic Bioethics Center to discuss how First Amendment religious liberty protections have been challenged during the...
Michael Vacca Discusses Threats to Religious Freedom May Come in 2021 with Teresa Tomeo
Michael Vacca, CMF Director of Ministry and Bioethics, discusses concerns about threats to religious freedom that are likely to come in a possible Joe Biden administration. He also talks about the suspicious numbers reported in the 2020 Presidential Election. Click...
Louis Brown Discusses Catholic Worldview and the 2020 Election with Teresa Tomeo
November 9, 2020: The Catholic Worldview and the 2020 Election Louis discusses the importance of sharing Catholic worldview through the mind of Christ. He emphasizes that our republic recognizes the God-given human dignity that no institution can take away. Free and...
Louis Brown Discusses Catholic Health Care, Pro-Life Advocacy, and the 2020 Election with Teresa Tomeo
November 5, 2020: Pro-Life Advocacy in the 2020 Election Louis Brown shares perspective on the election and its importance as it relates to issues facing pro-life advocacy groups, Catholic health care, and voter suppression. Brown reiterates the importance of our...
Michael Vacca Discusses the Survival of Pro-Life Health Care & Religious Freedom Amidst the 2020 Election with Teresa Tomeo
The Survival of Pro-life Health Care & Religious Freedom Michael Vacca, CMF Director of Ministry and Bioethics, discusses this year's highly contested election and what it means for religious freedom in health care and pro-life health care that protects the...
Press Releases
Press Release: Christ Medicus Foundation Regrets Advancement of Build Back Better Act and Reports of HHS Efforts to Attack Religious Freedom and Pro-Life Health Care
This bill "would significantly expand federal funding of abortions and effectively discriminate against faith-based organizations seeking to be recipients of funding as childcare providers." For Immediate Release(Troy, MI) November 19, 2021 Statement by Louis Brown,...
For Immediate Release: The Need for Consent in Medical Interventions & the Problematic Nature of Vaccine Mandates
Statement by The Christ Medicus Foundation addressing the problematic rise of vaccine mandates "The Christ Medicus Foundation calls for a respect of the conscience of the individual to make their own decisions about what medical interventions to receive or not...
For Immediate Release: New Ohio Law Protects Civil Right of Medical Conscience
Statement by Louis Brown, Jr., Esq. Executive Director of the Christ Medicus Foundation "The law of the land in Ohio now fully protects the civil right of medical professionals to love and care for patients consistent with their moral, ethical, and religious...
For Immediate Release: Christ Medicus Foundation Statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision in the Case of Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
"We hope and pray that Congress, state governments, and anti-religious freedom forces in the culture will finally recognize what the Supreme Court has long held: religious freedom is a foundational civil right, a pillar for all other civil rights, and a right the...
For Immediate Release: New HHS Action Threatens the Civil Right of Medical Conscience
"The HHS announcement of its new interpretation of sex discrimination in health care undermines medical conscience rights and disregards the will of Congress as articulated in the Administrative Procedures Act." For Immediate Release(Troy, MI) May 12, 2021 On May...
For Immediate Release: Governor’s Signing of Arkansas Conscience Legislation Reinforces Urgent Need to Protect Civil Rights of Medical Workers Across the Country
“Tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, and health care entities across the country still remain at risk.” For Immediate Release(Washington, D.C.) March 30, 2021 The signing into Arkansas law of the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act will...