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Posted on 01/28/2010 10:25:40 AM PST by AIM Freeper
Calling health care a "right" to be guaranteed by the federal government, America's Catholic Bishops are trying to save ObamaCare at a time when the legislation has been pronounced in limbo, dying or dead by most of the media.
The evidence of intensive Catholic Bishop lobbying activity suggests that liberal Congressional leaders are going to give the legislation a temporary respite so that liberal Catholics can be persuaded to pressure Congress to pass both national health care legislation and "comprehensive immigration reform" in the form of H.R. 4321, the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity" Act.
As AIM has documented, lobbying by the Catholic Bishops and their representatives, who worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, guaranteed passage of the health care bill in the House.
In a January 13 conference call and briefing, Kevin Appleby, a representative of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, explained in frank language why the Bishops are so desperate to pass the health care and immigration bills. He said that the Bishops want a federal health plan to absorb the costs being borne by the nation's 600 Catholic hospitals to cover illegal aliens.
Appleby said, "We have Catholic hospitals throughout the country that experience the same things that Alan was describing and we serve undocumented immigrants in our emergency rooms and community clinics, etc. So we have a stake in this in that the burden will fall not just on our providers but as Alan described, taxpayers throughout the country."
This was one of the clearest indications yet that support for national health care legislation is a means by which the Bishops can dump some of the costs of operating Catholic hospitals on the American taxpayers.
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Nope.
No socialism coming from the pulpits.
No sireee.
Move along.
This represents just one more reason why I am not a practicing Catholic any more.
You make this deal your Eminence and there will be Abortions out the ying yang at St. Elizabeth’s
This is not news to me. The Steubenville Diocese has been promoting amnesty for years, and recently started promoting healthcare as a human right.
The American Catholic Church becomes increasingly unhealthy for our souls and thank God that there are chapels throughout the nation staffed by competent priests of the SSPX!
If the Church wants illegals to have health care, then I suggest the bishops open up the Church’s purse strings and pay for it themselves.
I am not opposed to that at all.
Another missive fueled by Cliff Kincaid’s anti-Catholic vendetta.
That’s my issue with healthcare. The church is supposed to care for those who can’t care for themselves. We give tithes for that. Our bishop thinks that our tithes should go to his new $9 million cathedral, even though the old cathedral is still standing. Then he has the nerve to tell me that healthcare is a basic human right? Bishop Conlon also did not sign the petition against obama speaking at Notre Dame.
The American Catholic Bishops and the Roman Catholic faith headed by our father in Rome are two different entities. Both the prior and present pope in Rome have tried to lessen the heretic ideas of liberal humanist belief present in too many of the bishops and archbishops in the American Catholic church by appointing orthodox bishops and archbishops when openings occur. This process continues, but a lot of the leftists are still sitting in bishop chairs.
Any bets as to whether leftists find this a reason to screech about the ‘separation of church and state?’
As I understand it, this is not a position of the Catholic Church, but the position of these Bishops. Their opinion should not matter any more than yours or mine; maybe less.
But that's the cool thing about the information age: you can always find something to support your paranoias and prejudices.
This is an anti-Catholic caucus thread -- sound thinking it strictly prohibited.
it > is.
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