Cardinal Roger Mahoney - # 1 of 2 or 3

Cardinal Roger Mahoney – # 1 of 2 or 3
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, September 25, 2009

Abortion in Health Care “Way Beyond my Field”: Cardinal Mahoney
“I really haven’t kept up on that,” said the Cardinal about the health care/abortion issue. By John Jalsevac

September 23, 2009 (LIfeSiteNews.com) – in a recent interview with CNSNews.com, Cardinal Roger declined to answer a question about whether or not he agreed with Cardinal Justin Rigali that the Obama health care bill should include language explicitly excluding any public funding of abortion. “This is way beyond my field,” the cardinal responded.

“My field is immigration,” said Mahoney, who is archbishop of Los Angeles. “I really haven’t kept up on that, and I spend all my time on this other. You have to get someone who spends time on that.”

When asked whether he believed abortion should be funded under the health care bill, Cardinal Mahoney said: “No, but that’s what the president said, too, so.”

Cardinal Rigali, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops pro-life committee, has spoken out against Obama’s healthcare plan as currently money to pay for abortions.

In a letter to legislators on behalf of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Rigali wrote that, under the plan, “federal taxpayer funds will subsidize the operating budget and provide networks that expand access to abortions. Furthermore, those constrained by economic necessity or other factors to purchase ‘public plan’ will be forced by the federal government to pay directly and specifically for abortion coverage.”…

The Associated Press, as well as the non-partisan FactCheck.org have both confirmed that he healthcare plan would indeed funnel public money to abortion… the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) on Monday issued a letter expressing its formal opposition to the legislation. “We must ensure that well-intentioned efforts to bring about ‘change” are not exploited to create a federally controlled system that promises health care for all, but creates an oppressive bureaucracy hostile to human life and to the integrity of the patient physicians relationship,” wrote the Catholic organization.

According to a list compiled by Catholic blogger Thomas Peters of AmericanPapist.com, so far over 40 U.S. Catholic Bishops have explicitly spoken out against Obama healthcare reform for a number of reasons, the most prominent of which is the funding of the killing of unborn children with public money.

George H. Kubeck, Hopefully, all California Bishops will speak out on Obamacare.
Please refer to today’s (1) Liturgy of the Hours, Second Reading, From a Sermon on Pastors by St. Augustine, bishop. (2) Today’s meditations: Who can ever tell an enquirer comprehensibly and reasonably briefly what “being a Christian” really means? P.B. XVI