There is NOTHING in the teaching of the Catholic Church that requires Catholics to support ANY federal “anti-poverty” program, or federal involvement of any kind in health care.
In fact, a Catholic is at liberty to accept the fact that all such programs are both unconstitutional and immoral.
The bishops have NO BUSINESS supporting ANYTHING that a Catholic is at liberty to reject. The bishops abuse their authority any time they take a public-policy position that is not obligatory for all Catholics.
Currently, the USCCB takes about 103 public-policy positions. About four of them are obligatory for all Catholics: E.g., abortion MUST be illegal; embryonic experimentation MUST be illegal, marriage can exist only between a man and a woman.
Pro-abortion apostates have been able to exploit the bishops’ abuse of their authority by pointing to the many unconstitutional public policies that they and the bishops support, as though the apostates’ support for abortion, gay marriage, etc., were just a few among many “issues.”
The USCCB will be an arm of the apostates’ party as long as it takes public policy positions that Catholics are at liberty to reject and still be faithful Catholics.
Robert Royal asked Cardinal George why he had soft-pedaled abortion over the years. George said it was because he had to keep the Catholic schools open (takes about $100 million/year), and the big donors were pro-abortion.
On a pilgrimage at Lourdes:
Rosary Basilica
On May 2, Cardinal George was the principal celebrant and homilist at a Mass in the Basilica of our Lady of the Rosary, a Catholic church and minor basilica within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. Its main theme is a celebration and depiction of the Rosary.
Photo: Peter Scudner / Order of Malta
God bless his many years of service.
Really? Wow, what were all those saints thinking?