A Conversation on the Big Divide -1

In pursuit of the truth, cinops be gone, Thursday, July 18, 2013

Ref. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-health-association-su

Participants will include Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Andrew Breitbart, Sister Carol Keehan, Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop Charles Chaput and others.

The Issue: Michael Warsaw, "The final rule issued June 28 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has our legal team and me scratching our heads - because nothing has changed. This HHS rule would still force EWTN [and National Catholic Register] and other Catholic agencies to cover in our health care packages contraception, sterilization and abortion inducing drugs, though the government assured us we wouldn't have to violate our moral stance to supply health care to our employees. The final rule is sorely inadequate.

On one side we have "Sister Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the U.S.

She issued a four-page statement on Monday night saying the group's concerns had been met and its members could now participate in the law in good conscience.

On the other side we have Cardinal Timothy Dolan and U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops which said its analysis "has not discovered any new change that eliminates the need to continue defending our rights in Congress and the courts.

On the one side supporters we have liberal and dissenting Catholics in Commonweal and National Catholic Reporter magazines.

On there other side we have Archbishop Charles Chaput who told an audience, "The worst enemies of religious freedom aren't out there among the critics who hate Christ or the Gospel or the Church, or all three. The worst enemies are in here, with us - all of us, clergy, religious and lay - when we live our faith with tepidness, cheap compromises, fear, routine, and hypocrisy."

"It is not the first time faithful Catholics and the CHA have been at loggerheads, Cardinal Francis George, the president of the USCCB, said in 2010 that Sister Keehan was to blame for Obamacare...

George H. Kubeck