Posted on 01/29/2012 1:34:07 PM PST by Salvation
Speak honestly: abortion is the killing of tiny human beings in the womb Denver bishop
Bishop [Daniel Jenky] Blasts Secularist Intolerance, Calls For Assertive Action to Defend Church
(Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik comments:) HHS delays rule on contraceptive coverage
Dolan: Natural law, not religious preference, dictates all life sacred
Religious leaders blast HHS over contraception mandate
Mandated Contraception, Sterilization: Caesar Demands Church Violate Conscience
OBAMAS CONTEMPT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (mandates coverage of sterilization & contraception)
Implications of Obama Admin move to force Cath hospitals to provide contraception and sterilizations
Catholic doctors group launches petition against contraception mandate
Contraception mandate tramples religious freedom, US bishops say
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And the State marches on——trying to eradicate God from worldview with force of law. We better wake up and get involved in a grass roots effort to put back God and our God-given rights before we find ourselves in Bonhoeffer’s shoes.
Pretty amazing. Better than I would have expected from Vlasney. He deserves to be complemented on this one.
I see that you are the keeper of the prolife and Catholic lists.
Please pass this on: Little Bella Santorum is hospitalized, and Rick and Karen need urgent prayers for their baby. See thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839518/posts
Bella needs prayers!
(Sorry to hijack this thread, but I don’t know how to ping.)
“We cannot and will not comply with this unjust law.”
Man oh man, I sure hope the Church holds fast on this one, and in a unified manner. I think this is one case where the Government will “blink first” if the Church sticks to its guns.
I’m very glad to see this. The one I posted the other day was read by our parish priest this morning after the Gospel. Needs to be spread everywhere in the country, now!
**and in a unified manner**
I’m collecting the names of the Bishops, so if you hear or see anything about your local, please post it or let me know.
Thanks.
Emails sent to Boehner, Brown and Portman. No, not holding my breath, but we have to try.
I think the Bishops had this written FOR them - that seems very close to what was in our bulletin this morning too - in the Diocese of Dallas. It’s TIME the Bishops speak out like Archbishop Timothy Dolan in NY - it is war and we Catholics MUST stand up. Heck - every one of faith must stand up to this shredding of the first amendment!
Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay Wisconsin also sent the letter (or a very similar one) to parish priests to read this weekend.
View the letter at: http://www.gbdioc.org/images/stories/News_Events/pdf/Bishop-Ricken-HHS-Letter.pdf
He seems to be a good conservative bishop.
Unfortunately, our local parish priest declined to read it at today’s masses.
Bishop Vlazny was my English teacher at Quigley North Seminary 1965/66. My history teacher that year was Father James Keleher who late became Bishop of Kansas City.
It may have been some kind of a template that they could use.
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Amen, Facebook this and NYer’s Fr Rutler article. Sent to friends and family.
To bad they are waking up so late in the game to the evil that is on the move. Maybe it’s not to late... Maybe the Bishops should have read the bill before backing it? Or they could have ask me if it was bad and unconstitutional law. It would have made thing much easier.
I can remember when the USCCB committee interviewed candidate Jimmy Carter and came out proclaiming, "He's with us on everything but abortion." The message then was clear: all the "social justice" things outweighed abortion. So Catholics voted for Carter.
My personal prediction of how this is going to turn out: hospitals, schools and colleges will "disaffiliate" from the Church. Only churches, which are exempt from the Obama requirements, will remain officially "Catholic." All other institutions will go the way many formerly Catholic colleges have already gone. That way the Church saves face. No officially Catholic organization will be paying for contraception, but all formerly Catholic organizations will go along quietly. And the Bishops will have the socialized medicine they wanted so badly.
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