Obama's Re-Election Sets up Two-Pronged Crisis for Church

I think you're right. It seems to me there are an awful lot of people who claim to be Catholic but who have been trying to build a US Catholic Church that's Protestant in all but name and about like the Anglican Church has been, a part of the State.

41 posted on 11/08/2012 12:05:02 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)

IMHO he wants hospitals to remain open but will seek cost reduction by mandating they accommodate walk-in abortion on demand (late term can't be done outpatient). Other cost cutting would include euthanasia on demand and/or whatever criteria IPAB and other obamacare bureaucrats come up with. That's on top of the disincentives (reduced payments and penalties) for treating various illnesses and patients that are being phased in. We need to be vigilant about what's happening because the alphabet media won't be drawing attention to it.

Peace be with you and stay healthy!

42 posted on 11/08/2012 12:31:57 PM PST by PeevedPatriot ("A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left."--Eccl 10:2)

To: Jim from C-Town

I understand and appreciate your point. I'm guessing though that the obama administration is more aware than most catholic laity that many of our hospitals have become secularized in recent decades. Just as our colleges have. Some claim it's due to accepting government money (Medicare, Medicaid, etc) but I don't buy that argument. It'd be illegal to discriminate against those patients anyway. No, there are many organizations that contract with the feds to provide a service and remain essentially true to their mission. I think what's happened in Catholic hospitals is that many of the religious orders that founded them got out of the health care ministry and turned them over to organizations that haven't remained committed to Catholic health care principles. If our institutions survive this mess, it'd be nice if some of those orders resumed their former health care ministries, at least at an administrative level to reinvigorate and oversee adherence to Catholic health care principles in these facilities.

Peace be with you.

43 posted on 11/08/2012 12:45:08 PM PST by PeevedPatriot ("A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left."--Eccl 10:2)

Will be praying Psalm 109 from this day onwards.

44 posted on 11/08/2012 2:08:27 PM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)

To: PeevedPatriot

They may be secularized, but they are owned by the Church.

45 posted on 11/08/2012 3:03:35 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

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