it’s not just the Hospitals that will have to close. Schools may have to someday close because they choose not to promote gay marriage as equal. Church marriages may not be recognized as valid for the same reason. Certainly there are those who would also like to remove tax-free status from Catholic Churches because they are advocating “political” ideas.
We may not see it in our lifetimes, but perhaps any remaining Catholics who choose not to join the Government Churches (as in China) will need to go underground.
We will have to do what the Irish did in the 18th century, when the Penal Codes made it a capital crime to teach an Irish child to read or write:
“Throughout those dark days, the hunted schoolmaster, with price upon his head, was hidden from house to house. And in the summertime, he gathered his little class, hungering and thirsting for knowledge, behind a hedge in a remote mountain glen—where, while each in turn the battered lads kept watch from the hilltop for the British soldiers, he fed to his eager pupils the forbidden fruit of knowledge.”
—Mac Manus, “The Story of the Irish Race” p.461
The Catholic Church began underground, is currently underground in China, and will no doubt be underground again before this is all over. The only real issue is to pray that we have the faith to remain true to it.