Bishops rip HHS mandate That Forces Coverage of Birth Control, Abortion Drugs

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I am writing you in response to the alarming issues in Washington regarding Healthcare Mandates. A peaceful and legal form of protest is “tax resistance” which its’ use and purpose dates back to the first century. I included the message that I sent out via social media and emails.

Washington must make changes to healthcare mandates to exclude religious hospitals, colleges and social services from contraception requirements. Contraception mandates deprive the people of institutions of their ethical and inalienable right to protect life and physical integrity. Historically, Catholics attend rallies to protest the lack of government protection of life from womb to tomb. Millions have already died as a result of the direct violation of the sanctity of life. We’ve waited and prayed for the light of reason to align common law with natural law. We consoled the sick and injured who have been oppressed these intrinsic evils of our time. Now we must act as one body, one faith, one voice by tax resistance.
The means of tax resistance dates back to 1st century AD and has been used for conscientious objection. The legal and peaceful means of tax resistance in this protest is simply filing for extension. The overwhelming number of extensions filed will highlight the grave importance of this issue.
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Regretfully, at the end of the day if the Administration does not reconsider, this is a mandate that will have to be ignored. The law will have to be broken, as do all immoral laws.
 
If this immoral law is carried out, all of us will suffer. If your Pastor does not offer abortion coverage for the church secretary, he will go to jail with the bishop. If you don’t have a vicar, you will have no Mass, no confession, unless you find a substitute priest to travel to your parish on the weekend. If all pastors go to jail, you won’t find any substitute. This immoral law is serious. Special thanks to those Catholics who supported this current administration and lead things to the way it is! Look at what you have done!

As an individual, I will choose suffer than sin. Lord have mercy on America!
 
Joe_5859 said:
Thomas Peters list is now up to 140 bishops (and a few diocesan administrators…let’s not forget that there are some dioceses that do not currently have a bishop).

It’s great to see our bishops at their battle stations. 👍
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Ours is conspicuosly absent from the list. Is this being covered in the MSM because nary a word has been spoken around here, altho our particular parish is quite pro-life.
 
Orthodox Bishops Assembly Silent on Moral Issues
On the Observer blog of the American Orthodox Institute, I look at the non-reaction of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America to the recent Obama administration mandate that forces most employers and insurers to provide contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs free of charge. More specifics here. The Assembly of Bishops, charged with the “common witness” for Orthodox Christians in America, was also missing in action during the 2012 March for Life.
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blog.acton.org/archives/29037-orthodox-bishops-assembly-silent-on-moral-issues.html
 
Southern Baptist leader: Obama Contraception mandate ‘is not only a Catholic issue’
The Obama administration’s mandate that religious institutions cover all birth control, including abortifacient drugs like Plan B and Ella, and sterilization in their health insurance plans has people of faith banding together across traditional doctrinal divisions. Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said any government law requiring people of faith to violate their conscience “is not only a Catholic issue, even though the mainstream media wants to make this a Catholic issue.”
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Dr. Mohler, an influential leader in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and the wider evangelical movement, sounded off during his daily podcast on Tuesday. “[E]vangelicals need to stand back and – in our own terms, on our own doctrine – understand that our religious liberty is being similarly subverted and attacked.”
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Although many evangelicals and Protestants do not share the Roman Catholic belief that all forms of artificial contraception are immoral, all Christian churches have traditionally taught abortion is wrong, he said.
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lifesitenews.com/news/southern-baptist-leader-obama-contraception-mandate-is-not-only-a-catholic
 
Tigg said:
Ours is conspicuosly absent from the list. Is this being covered in the MSM because nary a word has been spoken around here, altho our particular parish is quite pro-life.
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You can call your Diocese office to ask for your bishop’s position. One of our parishioners called our Diocese office and found out our bishop did make a statement, but did not issue a letter. Your call of concern may urge him to take a position. We all need to take some action rather than just being aware of things.
 
pnewton said:
Regretfully, at the end of the day if the Administration does not reconsider, this is a mandate that will have to be ignored. The law will have to be broken, as do all immoral laws.
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In a weird way, I am hopeful of the good that will come of it. One blogger quipped that the Obama administration has been able to do what even the Pope hasn’t: get all the bishops of the U.S. to agree. 😛

I agree with Jimmy Akin’s assessment that it is not a question of if this mandate will be overturned but rather who is going to be the one to overturn it. I’m inclined to agree. There is no way this mandate is going to stand. No way.

When Fr. Z and the National Catholic Reporter are in agreement with one another, you know that we Catholics are poised to get things done. 🙂
 
Tigg said:
Ours is conspicuosly absent from the list. Is this being covered in the MSM because nary a word has been spoken around here, altho our particular parish is quite pro-life.
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PTL said:
You can call your Diocese office to ask for your bishop’s position. One of our parishioners called our Diocese office and found out our bishop did make a statement, but did not issue a letter. Your call of concern may urge him to take a position. We all need to take some action rather than just being aware of things.
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I agree with PTL. His absence from the list doesn’t necessarily mean no statement has been issued. Perhaps the diocesan website is just slow on the uptake. Or maybe he’s drafting a statement as we speak.
 
As things have deteriorated over the years, our family has kept saying that now is the time to pray for a greater faith, trust and love that we may be strong when the time comes. That time is now and I believe it will get worse. For the sake of Christ, we must reject this mandate if it survives the court system. And be prepared that it will because the activist judges have been well placed and this agenda well thought-out to cover all contingencies.

It’s not just the possibility of imprisonment we might face, but financial ruin from fines and penalites. Will they punish our family as well? It all seems inconceivable in this country, but we are entering a new age and God’s mercy our only hope, as all levels of the government and even the military are corrupted. We just need to remember that by the blood of martyrs the Church has been strengthened in the past, and we know who ultimately wins in the end.

All Christians will need to make an individual choice in their own hearts, though. Our Mother will help us.
 
I got roundly knocked down by dozens of members here when a few weeks ago I gave it as personal opinion the Catholic Church in America would be well advised to surrender their tax exempt status. So which is it? Let the government call the shots, or cut the cord?
 
InLight247 said:
If this immoral law is carried out, all of us will suffer. If your Pastor does not offer abortion coverage for the church secretary, he will go to jail with the bishop. If you don’t have a vicar, you will have no Mass, no confession, unless you find a substitute priest to travel to your parish on the weekend. If all pastors go to jail, you won’t find any substitute. This immoral law is serious. Special thanks to those Catholics who supported this current administration and lead things to the way it is! Look at what you have done!

As an individual, I will choose suffer than sin. Lord have mercy on America!
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What you point out is true. If priests and bishops are arrested, it will cause everyone in that parish and diocese, and all Catholics indirectly, to suffer. I pray that if that happens then such overwhelming numbers of Catholics will respond with outrage and civil disobedience (but not violence) that the government will be forced to recognize our right to follow the teachings of the Church.

I’m sure that all the bishops are prepared to endure that kind of abuse if necessary. We should certainly try to avoid that outcome by urging our representatives to change the law now. But I’m afraid for many Catholics the seriousness of this injustice won’t be realized until we see actual arrests. I really hope there’s enough fighting spirit left in the American people to get mad when they see a priest or bishop thrown in jail. That’s really the whole point of my question. I wanted to see if there’s anyone out there who’s willing to say “No” whatever the cost. It sounds like there are some and I hope the number will grow when Catholics realize how this will affect the clergy they love.

Priests and bishops ARE planning to disobey this order, and may be jailed for it! Get mad about that and demand that something is done to stop it. Refuse to accept it lying down. Decide right now that you’re a Catholic first, American citizen second. That is exactly what our Lord demands of all of us:

"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." Matt 10:37. Make no mistake, anyone who loves (or fears) Congress or the President or even America more than Christ is not worthy of Him either!

I agree with your other point too. Those Catholics who voted for pro-death candidates will hopefully have a serious change of heart as they learn what their votes have produced! 😦
 
mgoforth said:
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But I’m afraid for many Catholics the seriousness of this injustice won’t be realized until we see actual arrests. I really hope there’s enough fighting spirit left in the American people to get mad when they see a priest or bishop thrown in jail. That’s really the whole point of my question. I wanted to see if there’s anyone out there who’s willing to say “No” whatever the cost. It sounds like there are some and I hope the number will grow when Catholics realize how this will affect the clergy they love.

Make no mistake, anyone who loves (or fears) Congress or the President or even America more than Christ is not worthy of Him either!

I agree with your other point too. Those Catholics who voted for pro-death candidates will hopefully have a serious change of heart as they learn what their votes have produced! 😦
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That is what I am afraid of also. I called two of my sisters(Catholics) concerning about this Friday fasting for our bishops against HHS. Both of them said something like “It is the insurance company who has to comply with the law.” In other words, why should church worry, it is not church complies, but the insurance company complies. I almost faint. Come on, give me a break. I told them that thinking is totally unbelievably hypocrite. Then they seem to agree with the seriousness of this matter. What we can do on top of our prayers is to educate people and wake them up. We also have to phone, write, email our Congress. And, no matter who will represent GOP, no matter we like the person or not, anyone is better than Obama. This coming election is a life and death election.
 
My family and I pray to have the fortitude to live,die, and be resurrected in the name of Jesus Christ.
 
Joe_5859 said:
In a weird way, I am hopeful of the good that will come of it. One blogger quipped that the Obama administration has been able to do what even the Pope hasn’t: get all the bishops of the U.S. to agree. 😛

I agree with Jimmy Akin’s assessment that it is not a question of if this mandate will be overturned but rather who is going to be the one to overturn it. I’m inclined to agree. There is no way this mandate is going to stand. No way.

When Fr. Z and the National Catholic Reporter are in agreement with one another, you know that we Catholics are poised to get things done. 🙂
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And there might be even more good than that. I’m seeing agreement among other Christian organizations as well.
 
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And there might be even more good than that. I’m seeing agreement among other Christian organizations as well.
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Yes - I thought I had posted this:
Today, more than 40 non-Catholic religious organizations including Protestant-affiliated colleges, National Association of Evangelicals, Focus on the Family, Assemblies of God, Northwest Nazarene University, and Eastern Mennonite University, sent a letter to the White House demanding religious protection against the newly issued HHS contraceptive mandate.
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“We write not in opposition to Catholic leaders and organizations. We write in solidarity.” Says the coalition letter. “Leaders of other faiths are also deeply troubled by and opposed to the mandate and the narrow exemption."

becketfund.org/protestants-and-jews-declare-to-white-house-we-stand-with-catholics/
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In addition, my husband is Grand Knight of a local council here and just received an e-mail from the Supreme Knight stating that The Knights of Columbus will never waver in their opposition to any governmental action or policy that forces our citizens to violate their deeply-held moral and religious convictions.

They will stand in solidarity with the clergy.
 
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