Court Rejects Abortion Giant’s Demand for Church Emails

Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 21, 2018 | Bill McMorris

[detective]

A federal appeals court rejected a Texas abortion chain's demand for all private communications from the state's 23 bishops.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency appeal from the Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops after a lower court gave the church 24 hours to hand over decades of private records to Whole Women's Health. "IT IS ORDERED that the emergency motion for stay filed by the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops is GRANTED pending further order of this court," the court said in a preliminary ruling [emphasis in original].

The case stems from the clinic's successful lawsuit to block state abortion reforms, which included requiring clinics to properly dispose of the remains of aborted children. Whole Women's Health took the case all the way to the Supreme Court where justices ruled 5-4 that the law infringed on abortion rights. It is now suing the state of Texas and sought church communications because Catholic cemeteries arranged free burials for aborted babies following the implementation of Texas's reforms.

[detective]

Court had allowed abortion corporation to require all emails from Catholic Bishops.

Higher court reversed the earlier ruling.

[PGR88]

As the American Progressive Empire gains strength, Christians will have to go back to worshipping secretly in catacombs.

[TheConservator]

This quite clearly is not a decision on the merits. Rather, it is a temporary stay preserving the status quo until such time as the appeals court can address the merits.

I predict that the appeals court allows some discovery of these communications, but that the court restricts the materials that have to be produced to those that actually mention the issue of this abortion law/disposal of aborted remains.

[CharlesOConnell]

Implication for defrocking of "Uncle Ted" Cardinal Theodore McCarick, for an erebophrenic, adult-to-teenager relationship with a boy decades ago: The last election saw a mania about digital privacy with Wikileaks. The operating principle that emerged was, "Don't want everyone in the world to know what you're up to? Don't do it."

Jump back more than 50 years, before the Cold War: Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, worked to replace Hitler, was in contact with von Staffenberg before the briefcase explosion plot, interacted with the British to help ensure political succession after Hitler. Most importantly, ran a secret intelligence operation. National Geographic: Pope vs Hitler

Jump back to today: A future Pope could engaged in the normal practice for a sovereign head of state, employing his Swiss Guard intelligence bureau to keep tabs on the McCaricks of the Catholic world, to ensure they are keeping to their obligation to chastity according to their state of life.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the link to “The Pope vs Hitler.”