[Mrs. Don-o]

It scorches me, as well, that the USCCB has decided to treat this as something that primarily impacts a small subset of institutions --- the schools, hospitals, social services, etc. that have “Catholic” or “Saint” or "Notre" in their 501(c)(3) names --- when it in fact impacts every employer: every Catholic, Christian or Jewish, Mormon or Muslim, believing or non-believing employer, many of whom have conscientious objections.

Do only Bishops have consciences?

Not only that. It socks every person legally resident in the United States, as of 2014 when the whole mandatory-for-everybody program kicks in.

This is why the whole Obamacare package was wrong from the git-go--- wrong in principle, even if Obama himself were out of the picture --- because it violates subsidiarity. And that is not an optional principle.

We have handed our free institutions over to the State, and the Bishops have been asking for this since the NCWC (predecessor to the USCCB) first endorsed national health insurance in 1917.

I told my bishop this would happen 5 years ago. Wouldn’t listen. I told Richard Doerflinger, a very, VERY good man, a man I sincerely love and admire at the USCCB, who lobbied hard, and in his official capacity, for this “Health Care Reform.” Wouldn’t listen.

Now they’ve got it, good and hard.

A lot of us could see it coming.

[Salvation]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848343/posts?page=6#6

I think many are looking at this from the point of losing religious freedom.

[Salvation]

But you are so correct! The Bishops of the past 40 years basically ignored Humanae Vitae.

The Bishops of today are having to the answer for the neglect of this life principle from the previous generaltion bishops.