-—— The Church should begin excommunicating all the deviant nuns and teachers; demand strict compliance with the Catholic dogma in all her institutions;-——
I’m all for that, but this won’t stop Obama.
-——state firmly that she will not comply with any form of contraception mandate and ask the faithful not to comply; pull the assets from unaffiliated banks and don’t pay any fines.———
They’ll put liens on Church properly, etc.
——A principled approach will draw faithful to the Church and expel those who should have left a long time ago.-——
True, but it won’t prevent asset seizure.
In the long run, confiscation of Church property may purify the Church, but Obama’s not interested in that.
I’m all for fighting the mandate, but we need to make our efforts as effective as possible.
The more I think about it, I think the best approach would be for priests to advocate, from the pulpit, voting against Obama. Let Obama take away the Church’s 501(c)3 status. Now THAT would ignite a firestorm.
Priests would be able to speak freely. The Church would be poorer, but better able to teach.
I realize that the non-payment option will be defeated in the courts, and of course it should be exercised together with general return to Catholic orthodoxy in matters of the dictrine on sexual sin, and robust involvement of the Church in civic affairs.
The Church should demonstrate that her mandate is not to protect material assets. She should be ready to take a hit in terms of financial pressure because of the fines and subsequent liens, as well as the loss of the tax exempt status. The purpose of refusing to pay the tax is not to save money but to drive home the point that no one should obey unjust laws. Build ye treasure in Heaven.