Posted on 03/04/2012 5:11:38 AM PST by NYer
Timothy Cardinal Dolan ramped up the rhetoric in his battle with the White House over contraception policy yesterday — and promised some political payback.
“Don’t impose your teaching upon us and make us do as a church what we find unconscionable to do!” the freshly minted prince of the church told a roaring crowd of 1,000 at Holy Trinity Diocesan HS in Hicksville, LI, referring to a government plan to mandate that religious institutions provide free contraception to workers.
“The Health and Human Services fight is a freedom-of-religion battle. It is not about contraception. It is not about women’s health,” Dolan said.
“No, we are talking about an unwarranted, unprecedented, radical intrusion into the interior life of, integrity of a church’s ability to teach, serve and sanctify on its own.”
In a blistering attack interlaced with humor, Dolan never mentioned President Obama by name — only his policies. And the cardinal promised to put the political muscle of 78 million American Catholics to work against the enemies of free religion.
“President Johnson said, as an American, I look to the church — I look to religion as a beehive. If you leave them alone, they’re going to give you tons of their honey. But if you stick your head in there, you’re going to get stung bad.”
The cardinal, dressed in black and wearing his priestly collar, warned that the sting may come in the voting booth.
“I’d recommend starting voter-registration drives at our parishes. Not only is it going to help churches, it is going to help our American republic. More voters the better.”
And he said he’s confident he’s not alone in the fight.
“We look up and see people who share our values and our vision,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
FWIW, Catholics don’t have a clue how much respectful support they have from Protestants...when they stick to their moral beliefs.
I’m very happy to hear that.It is incredible how many people truly hate my church and people who are Catholic.I’ve had many thing said to me over the years about being Catholic and I’m sure over the years that has got much worse.
Well, yes for Rosemary's baby...or Damian.
Regards,
GtG
You are always welcome to join.
So far they have failed. So what else is new??
Go on the offensive, for a change.
It would astonish a Democrat to find out how hard it is to frame an issue in a way favorable to yourself, when journalism (note the singular, journalism is unitary, and has been for a century because of the effect of wire service journalism in general and the Associated Press in particular.
The Catholic Church accepts sinners (as we are all sinners) as Jesus dealt with sinners and outcasts during his life.
The Catholic Church (despite all her problems) tries to show the way to salvation and to share God’s love with all of us.
We can either accept or reject God’s love.
But there are principles that all Catholics should be willing to stand by their Faith and not cross the line
Cardinal Dolan looks best to me when he’s not smiling.
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