Top Catholic bishop feels betrayed by Obama
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In the wake of President Obama’s controversial decision to mandate that religious groups pay for contraceptives for their employees, much of the coverage focused on how the president had disappointed progressive allies by giving religious groups an extra year to comply.
But the decision also had New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, feeling personally betrayed.
“I have to say, there’s a sense of personal disappointment,” Dolan said Tuesday (Jan. 24) after he gave a lecture on “Law and the Gospel of Life” at Fordham Law School.
Last November, amid deepening tensions between the bishops and the administration over the pending contraception mandate and other issues, Obama invited Dolan to the Oval Office, where the two men shared what Dolan called a productive and “extraordinarily friendly” meeting.
“The president seemed very earnest, he said he considered the protection of conscience sacred, that he didn’t want anything his administration would do to impede the work of the church that he claimed he held in high regard,” Dolan recalled on Tuesday. “So I did leave a little buoyant.” [more]
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What is the catholic Churches solution to prevent “Unwed pregnancies”???? Is that solution working???? Check the stats!!!! This IS NOT a political issue its moral. Catholics (Americans) are loosing that battle. We have to do something more that campaign!
54% of Catholics voted for Obama, while only 52% of the geneeral electorate did.
Those Catholics who voted for Obama have not gotten strong-enough teaching from Church leaders about the primacy of life. Had Church leaders done their job, Obama would not be president. He is a curse on our land, but a curse we (at least corporately) deserve, because Catholics voted him into office.
Catholics must understand that this government and all secular governments are and will be ultimately hostile to Christ, and, by extension, to Catholicism. It is a peculiarly American Catholic idea that a Catholic can ultimately expect a peaceful life in a secular society. Unfortunately, without the protection of a Catholic polity, the Church will at some point face persecution. America is not and has never been supportive of Catholics. It was not until Catholics comprised a substantial minority of the population that Catholics were accepted, and then often at the price of material apostasy (e.g. JFK’s famous speech). After the masonic revolutions in Europe and Central America, the Church suffered terrible persecutions. Expect much the same here. Let this be a teaching moment for the Americhurch bishops — a most painful and necessary lesson to those infected with Modernism and Americanism.
Once again how is this news??? These stupid liberal democratic bishops drank the cool-aid and endorsed this guy knowing full well what kind of man he was. There is no dissallusionment here
only prophesy. Wake up and smell the new day, these are the same bishops who have embraced the new mass translation. Pitiful.
Exactly!!!
Lay down with dogs, you will wake up with fleas.
David…
Does not the concept of “providing for ALL its citizens” include making room in the big picture for those of its citizens who in sincere conscience believe differently?
The reality is that everybody is a “Cafeteria Catholic”. We all pick and choose what teachings we accept. From Birth Control to War to Capital Punishment, etc. No one is immune from the responsibility of Conscience and responsibility – but we are given the freedom to choose to accept/give life or not. To give life is more than the physical aspect – is also found in our respect for the great diversity of humanity as God’s creation.
Even more disappointing than the White House position is the judgment of the Bishops that they can trust this administration. What are they thinking or are they thinking at all?
Lame argument. The RC Church is not asking the Government to enforce her teachings, she is asking the government to stop making the church enforce it’s teachings. Why should the church have to pay for provisions in the health care mandate that goes against it’s moral conscience. The church constantly teaches on moral issues, the problem is, few are listening. Jesus predicted this but there are those so called “Cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose what they will believe. For Christ and His Church its “All or Nothing.” Nothing is the absence of God.
Spot on, Michael.
I am amazed that the RC Church thinks that the Federal or State Government needs to enforce what RC Bishops think is morally right or wrong. I believe our government needs to provide for ALL its citizens. Morality needs to be taught in the Church – how has that been working over the last 10 years?
David — You seem to have missed what actually is happening. The Church is NOT asking the government to enforce what the bishops teach is morally right or wrong; rather, the Church simply is asking for freedom to live consistent with its belief that contraception is wrong, and therefore Church-affiliated organizations should not be required to pay for contractive services in health care plans.