While many Bishops are to be commended for the stance they took on the attack on religious freedom posed by Obamacare, their response has been inadequate.
Remember the phrase “suppose they had a war and nobody came.” Well that describes the lackluster war that the Bishops called for. In many, many parishes there was only an insertion of a Bishop’s letter with no comments from the pulpit by pastor or priest. Contrast that with the during the Mass screening of an Archbishop’s Annual Appeal video.
I had expected that an effective campaign for the Fortnight for Freedom should have resulted in hundreds of thousands gathering at an approprite location in each and every diocese.
It is time to invite the cultural Catholics, laity and priests, to find another place to worship.
It is time to withdraw from secularized educational institutions that are Catholic in name only.
It is time to close hospitals and other social institutions that would otherwise violate conscience.
It is time for the Church to refuse to have offerings to God given the status of income tax deductions.
It is time that excommunication for many public leaders cease being a rarity.
It is time for all believers to promote school vouchers so that the children are not brainwashed eith secular values.
**Many bishops**
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What dc you mean “many”?
100 percent came out against this monstrosity. That’s ALL!
Perhaps they could have done more, but the lawsuits are still viable as far as I know.
This is not over. (In other words, I don’t think they will every force Catholics to go against their faith.) But then looking backwards, Catholics were martyred because they would not pinch incense to the emperor, king, whatever. Maybe there will be more Catholic martyrs — I say bring it on — that always brings more people to the faith.