Who are the Little Sisters of the Poor, and why should you care?

catholicnewsagency.com ^ | March 23, 2016 | Jenny Uebbing

[Morgana]

If you were totally avoiding the internet today, or if you live under a particularly pleasant and comfortable rock, maybe you don’t know that the federal government and a bunch of nuns are duking it out before the Supreme Court over birth control.

More to the point, they’re fighting over the Little Sisters of the Poors’ refusal to subsidize contraception and abortion-causing drugs for their employees via their health insurance coverage, all of whom, by the way, are mandated by the President Obama’s signature eponymous government overreach law to purchase their own health insurance.

Well, fair’s fair, right? I mean, the law’s the law. We’ve all got to play by the rules.

Except that fully one third of Americans – including major corporations like Exxon, Pepsi, and Visa – flipping Visa – are exempted from the mandate.

I’ll let that sink in for a minute.

(I’m being a little bit dramatic actually. Because the Little Sisters of the Poor aren’t actually nuns; they’re sisters. Nuns are cloistered women religious who spend their lives away from the world, physically hidden behind convent doors and engaged in lives of quiet contemplation, prayer, and sacrifices.)

Sisters, on the other hand, are women religious who have vowed to live out their vocation to serve Christ in an active apostolate. They still vow poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they work in the streets and in hospitals and schools. They can be doctors and lawyers and social workers and professors, but who are married to Jesus and His Church.

[Morgana]

Mainly you should care because these chicks will care for you in your old age and not Obama.

[T-Bird45]

"Who Are the Little Sisters of the Poor?"

Sponsors of the worst football team ever??

Sorry, couldn't help myself, just the first thing that jumped into my head and I had to let it out. To the serious point made in the article, this case is prima facie evidence for the open and shut case that our culture has fully left the rails, IMO.

[Vehmgericht]

Have they been put on the terrorist watchlist yet?