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Cardinal George: no Catholic hospitals in 2 years unless HHS mandate is rescinded
CatholicCulture.org ^ | 02/27/2012

Posted on 02/27/2012 9:15:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: massgopguy
25% of all hospital beds in the US are in a building with the word “Saint” on the door.
Closing them would cause a crisis.
I wonder who Obama turns them over to?


21 posted on 02/27/2012 9:51:24 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: goat granny
Something like one in every 3 US hospital beds is in a Catholic hospital. There is no way that secular hospitals could make up the difference. If the Church goes away, it basically will pull the plug on the system.

If the Church opts to close the hospitals, look for them to be forcibly nationalized rather than allowed to close. And they say Obama isn't a communist...

22 posted on 02/27/2012 9:57:53 AM PST by jboot
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To: rwilson99
They will steal them, you mean. Any associated costs will be financed, to be paid off later at confiscatory interest rates by We the Taxpayers.

Christians persecuted in your name and with your dollars. Get ready, it is nearly time.

23 posted on 02/27/2012 10:05:15 AM PST by jboot
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To: jboot

We could very well be closer to a second American revolution.


24 posted on 02/27/2012 10:09:00 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suppose - if I were computer literate enough - I could give a better link but alas, I’m a dummy. Suffice to say, go to the following URL http://barnhardt.biz/ and scroll down to her entry for February 21. She gives a proper response to Mr. Soetero and his mandate.

BTW, this is the same lady who burned a koran on Youtube and when threatened by a muzzie gave him explicit directions to her house. She’s still there though he never showed up.


25 posted on 02/27/2012 10:11:27 AM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: SeekAndFind
What will happen if the HHS regulations are not rescinded? A Catholic institution, so far as I can see right now, will have one of four choices: 1) secularize itself, breaking its connection to the Church, her moral and social teachings and the oversight of its ministry by the local bishop. This is a form of theft. It means the Church will not be permitted to have an institutional voice in public life. 2) Pay exorbitant annual fines to avoid paying for insurance policies that cover abortifacient drugs, artificial contraception and sterilization. This is not economically sustainable. 3) Sell the institution to a non-Catholic group or to a local government. 4) Close down …

Hmm.. Usually I would go with option 1, but lately the Church seems to be slowly growing balls, so option 4 just might actually happen! It'd be pretty interesting to see what would happen with that.
26 posted on 02/27/2012 10:11:36 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: massgopguy

Re: I wonder who Obama turns them over to? (religious hospitals)

Easy, obamas chief adviser, Satan


27 posted on 02/27/2012 10:25:11 AM PST by jesseam
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To: jboot
Per Wikipedia: Catholic hospitals: Comprising more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in all 50 states, the Catholic health ministry is the largest group of non-profit health care providers in the nation.

Let's see what happens when they close their doors -even temporarily.

28 posted on 02/27/2012 11:03:02 AM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'd like to know who convinced Bobo that he could afford to lose cafeCatholics (who won't just sit on their hands, but switch), when the GOP offers not one but two Catholics.

The whole thing is scripted anyway, but still, it's weird to see a guy who wants to be The One-Termer.

29 posted on 02/27/2012 11:38:56 AM PST by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: jesseam
Re: I wonder who Obama turns them over to? (religious hospitals)

The Soros-Buffet Healthcare System. Fully equipped by GE with and ALL union staff. Jamie Gorelic is to be the CEO.

30 posted on 02/27/2012 11:47:37 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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To: oneolcop
Let's see what happens when they close their doors -even temporarily.

That's easy-they will be forcibly nationalized. And the dumb sheep will applaud because the government saved their hospitals.

31 posted on 02/27/2012 12:01:41 PM PST by jboot
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To: jboot
And they say Obama isn't a communist...

If this country is dumb enough to re-elect him, he will remove all doubt.

Every remaining GOP candidate has their faults. Rick Santorum (my favorite) needs to spend more time wooing economic conservatives. Ron Paul needs to spend more time convincing people he isn't batsh*t crazy. Newt Gingrich needs to spend more time convincing women (especially) that he won't have another bimbo eruption. Mitt Romney needs to spend more time wooing social conservatives.

But warts and all, not one of them is an America hating Communist. Not even close. Not even if you put together the worst aspects of each.

32 posted on 02/27/2012 12:10:47 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Biggirl
The fuel is piled high and the tinder is good and dry. All we are waiting for now is a spark.

It is only the genuine goodness of conservatives that has held back the fire this long. Were the left subject to even a tithe of the persecution and provocation that is heaped on us they would have long ago washed the streets with blood.

33 posted on 02/27/2012 12:11:11 PM PST by jboot
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To: jboot
And if the staff just didn't come to work???

Then, I guess we'll see who has the cajones to stay in the contest.

34 posted on 02/27/2012 12:25:52 PM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: SeekAndFind

A biblical warning for Obama.

“Mr Obama, take heed to what you intend to do regarding these Christians. ...keep away from these people and let them alone; for if their plan or their work is of men, it will come to nothing; but if their plan and work are of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.”

You have stirred a mighty sleeping giant, Sir. The question is...will you prove to be like Pharaoh...OBSTINATE!

Deacon Francis


35 posted on 02/27/2012 12:29:23 PM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places EPH 6:12
36 posted on 02/27/2012 12:32:41 PM PST by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: rwilson99

No. They will not be sold.


37 posted on 02/27/2012 12:36:32 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: oneolcop
And if the staff just didn't come to work???

The ones that like to keep eating will. Jobs are scarce and the majority of the staff in these institutions aren't rock-ribbed Catholic stalwarts ready to suffer for the faith. Some surely are, but the government will be confident that they can backfill those positions with HHS staff.

This is going to be a tough fight with a lot of soul-searching and spiritual consequences if we don't get rid of Zero this year.

38 posted on 02/27/2012 12:49:04 PM PST by jboot
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To: MrEdd
No. They will not be sold.

Yes, someone posted here about a week or two ago that a Head Nun of one of these Hospitals noted on another Issue she had no problem tearing it down. I could see them doing that.....

39 posted on 02/27/2012 1:49:26 PM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: MrB

As a Catholic, I think this is the wrong response. Or at least it appears that way to me.

The leaders of the RC church should tell the Federal government they will not obey the order. The church ought to keep the hospitals open and refuse to pay a fine to the US gov’t. This would force the government to literally assume the ownership by force against a religous group.

Citizens need to call the government’s bluff here and risk going to jail over it. How would the gen’l population feel if the jails were full of Christians of all stripes being arrested and thrown into jails simply because they oppose this Obamacare mandate????

Witnesses for the faith by going to jail are a good tool against imperial edicts coming from our government.


40 posted on 02/27/2012 1:50:16 PM PST by Gumdrop
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