Posted on 04/10/2012 10:45:14 PM PDT by STARWISE
In the clearest statement of what’s at stake for Catholic employers when it comes to the Obamacare contraception mandate, a leading Catholic cardinal recently said that it is, in fact, a sin for employers to comply with the mandate.
Cardinal Raymond Burke told EWTN’s Thomas McKenna that Catholic employers would not only be guilty of material cooperation with sin, but also formal cooperation because they would knowingly and deliberately be providing employees with contraception:
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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?”
Cardinal 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.”
Responding to the comments, [former executive director of HLI America Jenn] Giroux says, “This comment by a high ranking Cardinal is the clearest explanation to date on the issue of an employer’s culpability when providing contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drug options in the insurance plans for employees.”
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It’s easy to see that this statement might come as a surprise even to the most faithful of Catholics, who are taught that an individual must freely consent to sin to bear full responsibility for it.
Under the mandate, do employers really have the freedom not to consent?
Cardinal Burke is telling them that, yes, they do. They have the freedom, for example, to get out of whatever business it is they’re running. They have the freedom to not have employees. They have the freedom to ignore the mandate and suffer the legal consequences.
Burke’s comments are a hard call to faithfulness to all those Catholic employers who have been outraged by the mandate but might have been tempted to justify their ultimate compliance with it with that perennial of excuses: “I had no choice.”
The seriousness of Burke’s words are also a warning to the Obama administration: He is saying that Catholic employers should go out of business before they comply with the mandate.
Just as opponents have said from the very beginning, the mandate does, in fact, endanger the very existence of Catholic hospitals, schools and other charitable organizations.
The president had better think long and hard about whether contraception coverage is more important to him than broader health care, education and help for the poor.
The smug and vengeful dictator hasn't even begun to consider the fallout of the multi millions of suffering souls and jobless if and when the doors close. This is a huge fork in the road. God grant the churches and synagogues with fortitude.
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Yes, the mandatory contraceptive coverage is more important to him and his inner circle than providing health care for millions of people. basically he is trying to divide the bishops from their flocks, and since he knows he has the support of many life-wing Catholics in this effort, he is willing to try.
God bless him.
The smug and vengeful dictator hasn’t even begun to consider the fallout of the multi millions of suffering souls and jobless if and when the doors close. This is a huge fork in the road. God grant the churches and synagogues with fortitude.
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This is a huge fork in the road. God grant the churches and synagogues with fortitude.
Yes!
Good to see the LORD moving his chess pieces across the board.
Well, we have FIVE conservative, Catholic Justices on SCOTUS.
Keep praying for their wisdom, excellent health and may they each live to 120!
“Well, we have FIVE conservative, Catholic Justices on SCOTUS.
Keep praying for their wisdom, excellent health and may they each live to 120!”
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Remember Our Lord’s words to His mother at the wedding at
Cana, Mary’s intercession is powerful.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
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The Church is sitting on its thumbs, praying that SCOTUS will toss the entire law and get them off the hook without their having to take on Obama politically. Kinda pathetic actually.
——The smug and vengeful dictator hasn’t even begun to consider the fallout of the multi millions of suffering souls and jobless if and when the doors close-——
Obama hates the Catholic Church. The contraceptive mandate is the means to the end of destroying It.
” Well, we have FIVE conservative, Catholic Justices on SCOTUS.
Keep praying for their wisdom, excellent health and may they each live to 120!”
Or at least 110!
110 years will suffice!
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