I found it quite puzzling. What will happen now? It’s quite an astounding move, will they be excommunicated?That is truly regrettable, why won’t they stand up for what’s right?
If I understand it right they are excommunicated latae sententiae.I found it quite puzzling. What will happen now? It’s quite an astounding move, will they be excommunicated?
Thomas McKenna: “So a Catholic employer, really getting down to it, he does not, or she does not provide this because that way they would be, in a sense, cooperating with the sin…the sin of contraception or the sin of providing a contraceptive that would abort a child, is this correct?”
lifenews.com/2012/04/10/catholic-cardinal-a-sin-to-cooperate-with-obama-mandateCardinal Burke: “This is correct. It is not only a matter of what we call “material cooperation” in the sense that the employer by giving this insurance benefit is materially providing for the contraception but it is also “formal cooperation” because he is knowingly and deliberately doing this, making this available to people. There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”
From the article at CNA. It isn’t clear to me if the sisters that run the hospitals were involved in the decision. It sounds like it was madfe by the president and affects the insurance plans they offer but potentially not the services at the hospitals (ie this doesn’t necessarily mean the hospitals or doctores themselves are offering ABC or performing abortions.He explained in the letter that Avera’s president and CEO, John Porter, said that he had personally made the decision to bring the company into compliance with the mandate.
Bishop Swain added that he was neither consulted nor informed of the decision before it was made.
Two members of diocesan offices in Sioux Falls had been members of the Avera board of directors and finance committee. However, the men did not play any part in the decision, and both have since resigned from their posts on the board.