Religious Freedom after the Sexual Revolution: A Catholic Guide

Laws mandating cooperation with the state’s new sexual orthodoxy are among the leading contemporary threats to the religious freedom of Catholic institutions in the United States. These demand that Catholic schools, health-care providers, or social services cooperate with contraception, cohabitation, abortion, same-sex marriage, or transgender identity and surgeries.

But Catholic institutions’ responses seem thin and uninspiring to many. They are criticized as legalistic, authoritarian, bur...