Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter on Friday to all U.S. bishops of the United States reasserting the conviction of the Catholic Church that it will not yield to the Obama administration’s command to provide free birth control insurance to its employees, but not one of the major news outlets covered the story.
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As the Obama administration works with union bosses and dissident Catholic leaders to work out another "compromise" on the HHS mandate, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the bishops' attempts to work with the White House are "going nowhere."
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Cardinal Francis George of Chicago is warning that the HHS mandate, which will force Catholic institutions to either violate their conscience by providing services that are against Church teaching or close, says that unless it is rescinded, Catholic social services may become a thing of the past.
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Just hours before being elevated to Cardinal, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan addressed the College of Cardinals and offered seven pointers on evangelization for reflection.
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A February 15 publication of the Catholic Health Association's Catholic World Health carried an
article from Sr. Carol Keehan expressing profound disappointment upon learning that the definition of a religious employer was not broadened to include her hospitals.
Unfortunately, we have learned that this letter was written prior to the announcement of President Obama's "accommodation." Apparently, the print version of the CHA publication "didn't get the memo" that Sr. Keehan had changed her mind and was now backing the mandate.
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After being cited by the White House and numerous press outlets as being a supporter of the Obama Administration's HHS mandate "accommodation," Catholic Charities USA says they have been mischaracterized by the media and are not in support of the mandate.
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Sister Carol Keehan, the infamous head of the Catholic Health Association who came out in support of the president's HHS mandate "accommodation" has apparently read the fine print and realized Catholic hospitals gained nothing in the "compromise" and is now expressing her "profound disappointment" with it.
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Even though two major Catholic groups, the Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities USA have come out in support of President Obama's HHS mandate "accommodation," the U.S. Bishops and 38 of the nation's top Catholic scholars have denounced the compromise as "morally obtuse" and completely unacceptable.
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The Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia, who run Aquinas College in Nashville, have put out a call to the faithful to combat the HHS mandate by praying and fasting for nine days from Feb. 11 until Feb. 19, to ask Our Lady to intercede on behalf of religious liberty.
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In response to a misleading White House blog in which the administration tried to defend its widely criticized mandate for contraception and sterilization coverage in private health plans, the U.S. bishops have published a point-by-point rebuttal which reveals the amount of subterfuge the Administration is using in order to quell the rising public outcry against this mandate.
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