{"id":7257,"date":"2012-03-14T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:57:46","slug":"the-bishops-decide-to-fight-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/03\/the-bishops-decide-to-fight-on.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bishops Decide to Fight On…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Call it the \u201crecalibration we can believe in,\u201d<\/a> breaking news from the Bishop\u2019s Administrative Committee,<\/p>\n

Bishops Promise To Continue \u2018Vigorous Efforts\u2019 Against HHS Violations Of Religious Freedom In Health Care Reform Mandate<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 14, 2012<\/p>\n

Declare government has no place defining religion, religious ministry
\nSeek protection for conscience rights of institutions, individuals
\nStress action with the public, White House, Congress, courts <\/p>\n

WASHINGTON\u2014The U.S. bishops are strongly united in their ongoing and determined efforts to protect religious freedom, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said in a March 14 statement.<\/p>\n

The Administrative Committee, chaired by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the USCCB, is the highest authority of the bishops\u2019 conference outside the semi-annual sessions of the full body of bishops. The Committee\u2019s membership consists of the elected chairmen of all the USCCB permanent committees and an elected bishop representative from each of the geographic regions of the USCCB.<\/p>\n

The full statement can be found here, United For Religious Freedom<\/a>, and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Administrative Committee said it was \u201cstrongly unified and intensely focused in its opposition to the various threats to religious freedom in our day.\u201d The bishops will continue their vigorous work of education on religious freedom, dialogue with the executive branch, legislative initiatives and efforts in the courts to defend religious freedom. They promised a longer statement on the principles at the heart of religious freedom, which will come later from the bishops\u2019 Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty.<\/p>\n

The bishops noted that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that forces all private health plans to provide coverage of sterilization and contraceptives \u2013 including abortion-inducing drugs \u2013 called for an immediate response. Of particular concern, they said, are a religious exemption from the mandate that the bishops deem \u201carbitrarily narrow\u201d and an \u201cunspecified and dubious future \u2018accommodation\u2019\u2019\u2019 offered to other religious organizations that are denied the exemption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of the press release at the USCCB website<\/a>. I\u2019m looking forward to reading \u201cA Statement on Religious Liberty,\u201d when it is published. I reckon Ralph Wolf probably wants a copy too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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