in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District
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and the Central Garden State

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Cardinal Dolan, we are NOT "burdened" by Catholic values. The TRUTH will set us free.

As per Cardinal Dolan's 9/17/13 letter to his brother bishops on the HHS Mandate:
  • "Catholics – our parents and grandparents, religious sisters, brothers and priests – were among the first at the table to advance and provide health care, and now we are being burdened because of the same Catholic values that compel us into these ministries!.... 
  • "the final version of the mandate still suffers from the same three basic problems we have highlighted from the start: its narrow definition of 'religious employer' reduces religious freedom to the freedom of worship by dividing our community between houses of worship and ministries of service; its second-class treatment of those great ministries—the so-called 'accommodation'—leaves them without adequate relief; and its failure to offer any relief at all to for-profit businesses run by so many of our faithful in the pews.... 
  • "If there's any perception that our dedication to this fight is flagging, that’s dead wrong. 
  • "That perception may come in part from the Catholic Health Association’s hurried acceptance of the accommodation, which was, I’m afraid, untimely and unhelpful."
Your Eminence, we are NOT "burdened" by Catholic values.  The TRUTH will set us free.  We are "burdened" by the so-called Catholic Health Association's identification as "Catholic."

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