{"id":6391,"date":"2012-02-10T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:12:40","slug":"fr-robert-barron-makes-it-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/02\/fr-robert-barron-makes-it-clear.html","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Robert Barron Makes it Clear…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This is a power grab and a push to secularize our nation and ghettoize Catholics. His article appears in the National Review Online<\/em>. Here is the beginning,<\/p>\n

The HHS Mandate: Anti-Catholic and Un-American <\/strong>
\nBy Rev. Robert Barron<\/p>\n

Decades ago, priests, religious brothers and religious sisters were colorfully visible features of Catholic hospitals, serving as nurses, chaplains, business officers, and chief administrators. With the decline in vocations, this obviously religious leadership largely disappeared, but Catholic values, for the most part, still animated these institutions. What has begun to concern a number of observers is that, as today\u2019s medical personnel, staffers, and administrators at Catholic hospitals have accommodated themselves more and more to secularist assumptions, even those values are in danger of disappearing.<\/p>\n

But now the slow and steady creep of secularization has been given a massive push by the Obama administration\u2019s recent mandate that all health-care agencies and institutions must pay for insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and certain kinds of abortifacient drugs. The state is creating an impossible situation for Catholic hospitals. If they cave in and provide insurance for these verboten procedures, they have effectively de-Catholicized themselves; and if they refuse to provide such insurance, they will be met with fines of millions of dollars, which they cannot possibly pay. In either case, they are forced out of business as Catholic.<\/p>\n

The secularist state wants Catholicism off the public stage and relegated to a private realm where it cannot interfere with secularism\u2019s totalitarian agenda. I realize that in using that particular term, I\u2019m dropping a rhetorical bomb, but I am not doing so casually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen, Father Barron. Go enjoy the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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