

New Legal Resource: Maximize Your Religious Liberty and Speech Defenses
Following CBA’s June 5, 2025 legal victory protecting our members from mandates to cover or provide gender-affirming care, we are pleased to share an important new resource. Our legal counsel has prepared a detailed memorandum, Maximizing Catholic Employers’ Religious...

Can’t find qualified Catholic talent? Consider these successful stategies.
By Mary Beth Barry For many Catholic employers, one of their greatest challenges is maintaining a strong Catholic culture in the workplace. You may have noticed a shift over the years toward a less Catholic employee base. If that is the case, you are not alone—many of...

Invest Catholic: CBA’s Unique 401k Member Solution
By Mary Beth Barry At CBA, we constantly strive to give our members resources and support so they can offer employee benefits that reflect Catholic values. One important way we do that is through our CBA Multiple Employer 401(k) Plan (MEP)—a retirement plan designed...

Discover the Power of Placing Catholic Identity in Job Descriptions
By Mary Beth Barry Note: This post is the third in an ongoing series on integrating Catholic identity into your HR processes and policies. Follow the links to read about orientation and onboarding and employee handbooks. For Catholic employers, job descriptions aren’t...

Don’t fall for these common objections to communicating identity
By Mary Beth Barry At a recent event, several attendees questioned why it is necessary to integrate Catholic identity into their HR structure. Some argued that it seemed redundant—after all, their identity is obvious, “Catholic” is even in their organization’s name....