Each weekend there are 4 Masses at the local church. The first Mass is on Saturday evening.
The priest gave his homily (sermon) about the scriptures read today, in addition he spoke about The Obama Administration mandate. It straight forward and to the point that the church could not comply.
After Mass ushers hand out the weekly parish bulletins. Today a one and one half page letter from the bishop was included with each bulletin. In the nine paragraph letter The Obama Administration and/or President Barack Obama was used 4 times.
An excerpt from that letter, in heavy bold print:
We can not--and we will not--comply with this unjust law. I call on all Catholics in our diocese to act now to seek the immediate reversal of this rule.
What wasn’t in the letter.....the reversal is easy, vote him out.
The letter was read before Mass by the Senior Warden. Father referred to it during his personal message just before dismissal. There were no copies available for people to take away, but he did refer everyone to the diocesan and parishional websites, where the letter has been posted.
There was scattered applause when he mentioned the letter.