THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION
UNITED TO:
Protect the conscience rights of Catholic employers
Optimize the Catholic employment experience
Provide access to cost effective Catholic benefits
Unite with us.
Our membership requires specific tools and guidance to function as wholly Catholic organizations. Moral and ethical issues may conflict with their faith. Securing their religious freedom can be expensive and overwhelming.
The Catholic Benefits Association unites Catholic employers who wish to express their Catholic solidarity in the public square.
Who Should Join CBA?
Catholic Dioceses and Ministries
All official Catholic ministries, including privately-owned Catholic non-profit and for-profit employers can benefit from membership. Current members range from Catholic archdioceses and dioceses, charities, schools and universities, healthcare systems and private practices, to a variety of privately-owned Catholic businesses.
Employers that are listed in the current edition of the Official Catholic Directory qualify for membership.
Ministry and Non-profits
Employers that are ministries and non-profits, but are not listed in the Official Catholic Directory (Kennedy List) who meet the following criteria and with the discretion of CBA can qualify for membership:
The organization represents, for itself and its related employers, that:
- Catholics (or trusts or other entities wholly controlled by Catholics) own 51% or more of the employer and related employers
- 51% or more of the employers’ and related employers’ governing bodies, if any, are Catholic; and,
- The organization represents, for itself and its related employers that, with regard to the practices, policies, and benefits they have or provide to their respective employees or others and with regard to any health care services they provide to patients, they, as part of their religious witness and exercise, are committed to implementing and providing no such employment practices, policies, benefits, or services inconsistent with Catholic values; and that they shall support efforts to preserve the right of Catholic organizations to do so.
Privately-Owned Catholic Businesses
Privately-owned Catholic for-profit businesses who meet the following criteria and the review of the CBA can qualify for membership:
- Catholics (or trusts or other entities wholly controlled by Catholics) own 51% or more of the employer and related employers
- 51% or more of the employers’ and related employers’ governing bodies, if any, are Catholic; and,
- The organization represents, for itself and its related employers that, with regard to the practices, policies, and benefits they have or provide to their respective employees or others and with regard to any health care services they provide to patients, they, as part of their religious witness and exercise, are committed to implementing and providing no such employment practices, policies, benefits, or services inconsistent with Catholic values; and that they shall support efforts to preserve the right of Catholic organizations to do so.
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We hold it for a fundamental and inalienable truth that religion and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction not by force and violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.