Posted on 03/17/2012 5:40:46 AM PDT by NYer
I wonder how that will play out with all the Christians who band together and ante into the pot to cover each other so outside insurance isn’t required.
Yes, I know. As the catz say, UR DOIN IT RONG, guys.
The church has to stand, as you say, and as much as I gripe about how they ignored the whole process until now, I am grateful they are standing, even as I’m fearful *they* will cave. As, in fact, they have been for a generation or more.
As others have pointed out, the Bishops don’t have the authority to give in, except on behalf of their individual dioceses. Faithful Catholic institutions are filing legal challenges, and they’re not going to withdraw them if a Bishop or the USCCB says a suitable compromise has been reached.
However, the heirarchy is missing a golden opportunity to place the American Catholic Church at the national level on the side of freedom for everyone and Christian moral values as a good for everyone. Even if they don’t reach an agreement with the Zero administration, they’ve already shown that they don’t “get it” regarding what is going on.
I didn’t mean “cave” in any official sense — there isn’t one. All they have is a pulpit, and in my opinion they have, collectively, wasted it. Now they want to be taken seriously — ok, better late than never— but where were they when the Community Organizer-cum-leader-of-the-free-world was campaigning with voodoo? Or when his footsoldiers were wearing “Obama 2008” baseball caps to Mass; or when the nation was “debating” this travesty of a law? The same place the bip — was it lynch?— was when Terri Schiavo was being starved to death: AWOL.
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