Apparently, the Administration firmly believes that government is the only authorized distribution point for grace and mercy.
This is very serious, you could see Catholics losing their jobs.
HHS will just rehire them when the federal government takes over the hospitals and clinics that are abandoned by the Catholic Church because they refuse to violate their conscience. No worries!
Exactly the outcome this administration wants. The constitution is just an inconvience in obtaining the objective. The one year “grace period” (ironic) is designed to get them past the election. The Bishops and the Pope would do well to take this on this fight full on prior to November.
But they will probaby drop out of medicine because of the requirements to distribute abc, the morning-after pill, and even to participate or perform abortions. Altho it is very difficult to fire someone in the government, I’m sure there’ll be a fast-track for pro-lifers, and no union help for them either.
I think that is what what HHS wants. This administration must be fought!
The USCCB messed up royally on this. Maybe God does provide the Holy Spirit to our Bishops on matters of faith and morals, but it’s clear that on practical matters of implementing those principles to public policy and politics, many of our Bishops are either clueless or just plain cowards to speak up. Of course, the excuse of the almighty tax exempt status always comes in handy when it comes to failing to speak up.
Sooner or later they will try to force all healthcare institutions to offer abortive/contraceptive drugs, followed by surgical sterilizations and surgical abortions, as a mandatory condition to retaining their licenses to offer healthcare. When that happens, Catholic hospitals and clinics will go out of business.
Well, he does. If you invest in sterilization programs via the UN, contraception, and abortion, you will have less people. Less people means less people having abortions or living in poverty. See? No muss, no fuss.
One should never equate USCCB with “the bishops”. USCCB is a largely lay-run organization, supposedly subject to the authority of the bishops, but run by laypersons with an obvious pro-Democrat bias. Equating USCCB with “the bishops” is giving the bishops a bad rap. My own bishop, for example, wouldn’t even take up the collection for CCHD in the diocese, and didn’t encourage anybody to donate to it. Actually, he discouraged it by recommending donations to the diocesan Catholic Charities organization right at the same time the CCHD appeal for funds came out. And he certainly wasn’t cowardly in advising against abortion supporting politicians in 2008.
With our votes and with our contributions. Nothing else will change Obama’s plan for the defeat of the Church in America.
Done
Done.
The Pope has identified this as a grave threat. Are we listening to our shepherd?
I have seen this stated several times throughout the forum so I am curious…How do you know this?And yet…Catholics voted Obama into office, in the same proportions as his other supporters. He didn’t hide his stance on life, either.
Someone needs to tell that to the catholics driving around with Obama '08 bumber stickers on their cars. Come to think of it, someone needs to tell the catholic bishops that its wrong to lend legitimacy and support to pro-abortion politicians by giving them a platform to speak. The typical answer is, " Governor so and so may be pro-abortion, and we disagree with her, but she’s speaking about immigration rights, not abortion."
Exactly correct. This is what Obama wants. The man is a covert Communist who is slowly and deliberately destroying every institution in this country that isn’t directly controlled by the government. What he wants, in the end, is a monolithic Soviet-style socialist state where everything, literally, is micromanaged by the central government.
I’ll sign it and send it, but it’s a waste of time. The passage of Obamacare should have been enough to prove to everyone that neither Congress or Obama gives a rat’s hindquarters about what we want. We clearly told them in one town hall meeting after another that we didn’t want it, and they rammed it down our throats anyway. The only thing that will ever get the attention of these people, I’m sorry to say, is brute force: the people are simply going to have to take a stand and say, “No, we won’t. If you try to force us to, you’re going to have to fight us.”