They had better stand tall, strong and totally united on this issue.
I believe they will....and pray they will, even though it will result in a crisis in the land when they close their doors. May God help His remnant to stand in the coming days.
I was born in a Catholic hospital and my doc and HMO are still there. Great hospital and the sisters still run it. The church needs to stand up. Too bad part-time Catholics voted for O and hsi corrupt baby killers.
To do otherwise would contravene centuries of Church dogma on a very significant moral issue.
There is no way the Catholic Church would allow its hospitals to be turned into abortion clinics.
I wonder how “The One” will deal with this. If he is as smart and pragmatic as he present himself, he will back off.
I hope so. My area's Catholic hospital was the hold out until a decade or so ago on joining the regional health system, but they are part of it now and overt Catholicness of the place has all but vanished. Local CINOs who pushed for it explain it away, but they caved. I hope others will stand strong and united.
Most of this is BS from the Obama team - they would already know that if the Catholic Hospitals shut down there would be a dramatic shortfall in hopital beds and people would be beiging for Obama’s blood (while blaming the Catholics of course). The fact is it would take long term planning to get this to happen. The government would slowly but surely have to get hold of the Catholic hospitals and then trun them.
Bishops - Call this Obama bluff!
There was a time when the bishops were men who stood up for their beliefs. Bishop Sheen and Cardinal Spellman, in particular, stand out.
The good bishop had the most watched show on TV, at the time. One reason was his oratory and his honest simplicity.
Cardinal Spellman, on the other hand, knew how to play hard ball. During one particularly rancorous discussion over state aid to Catholic schools (buses, textbooks and supplies), he told the politicians “No help, no schools”. He threatened to shut down every Catholic school in the Archdiocese - an absolute disaster for the politicians. He prevailed.