Archbishop: Obama Needs To Stop 'Intruding Into Internal Life Of Church'

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Incomplete said:
I like that blogger and think that this is pretty accurate. I am very concerned about the future.
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Same here. I love that blogger and I am afraid she is dead on right about the future.

Peace, and God Bless.
 
jwinch2 said:
Here is a snippet…
I am convinced that even the most favorable Supreme Court ruling will not prevent such crises from cropping up again and again in the near future. We will no longer being asked to tolerate evils: we will be ordered to participate in them: as payers first, then as providers.
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I don’t know if I’m the only one who relishes this fight. I feel like I’ve been anticipating and preparing for it all my life.

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!"

On second thought, maybe I I’ve just been watching too many action movies.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ new Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty has issued a stirring statement this morning rallying all Americans, and certainly all Catholics, to be good stewards of religious liberty in America.
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It’s a robust message with history and analysis, some catechesis, and a litany of some of the most urgent and pernicious concerns of late.
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nationalreview.com/corner/295845/be-guard-religious-liberty-under-attack-kathryn-jean-lopez

From the Bishops statement:
What is at stake is whether America will continue to have a free, creative, and robust civil society — or whether the state alone will determine who gets to contribute to the common good, and how they get to do it. Religious believers are part of American civil society, which includes neighbors helping each other, community associations, fraternal service clubs, sports leagues, and youth groups. All these Americans make their contribution to our common life, and they do not need the permission of the government to do so. Restrictions on religious liberty are an attack on civil society and the American genius for voluntary associations.
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**Silver Lining to HHS Mandate **
Could there possibly be a silver lining in the federal contraception mandate controversy?
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For all the institutional disruption, political spin and vitriol generated by the mandate’s supporters, who have mischaracterized the bishops’ stance as a “war on women,” the crisis has yielded some unexpected fruits. Not only has it aroused the “sleeping giant” of Catholicism in the United States, prompting an energetic defense of the free exercise of cherished institutions, it has provoked a fresh assessment of Church teaching on contraception.
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“The main issue remains that of religious liberty. But this whole episode has provided a catechetical opportunity to speak about the Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life in its origins,” observed Archbishop-designate William Lori of Baltimore, the chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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“Contraception has been touted as the best possible thing for women and society, while our experience over the past 40-plus years suggests the opposite.”
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“There is a new opening,” noted the outgoing bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. And while an increasingly toxic sexual culture has helped provoke a broader reassessment, young Catholics also have been inspired by Blessed John Paul II’s theology of the body, which offers a deeply hopeful vision of human life and love amid a culture that has witnessed declining rates of marriage and a rise in non-marital births.
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Not only are priests, in their Sunday homilies, offering a defense of Humanae Vitae
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(On the Regulation of Birth), but the controversy has forced the media to provide a forum for Church teaching that has been ridiculed throughout the globe.

ncregister.com/site/article/silver-lining-to-hhs-mandate
 
**Catholic’s revive assault on Obama’s abortion mandate **
If President Obama thought Catholics were going to move past their anger at his administration’s demand that most employers–even Catholic ones–provide health insurance that covers birth control and abortion services, today’s attack by the chairman of the Knights of Columbus will remind him that the fight has just begun.
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washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/catholic%E2%80%99s-revive-assault-obama%E2%80%99s-abortion-mandate
 
If we lose this one, I’m on the side of not paying the fines, either. Just keep going like we have been.
 
Incomplete said:
If we lose this one, I’m on the side of not paying the fines, either. Just keep going like we have been.
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I’m with you…but I fear eventually the jails may become quite crowded…we pray it doesn’t come to that.
 
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