The Bishops are well meaning but naive.
They need to discuss what the means totalitarian governments use with other Cardinals and Bishops living in these circumstances around the world.
Obama’s minions are smart enough not to use the HHS mandates to destroy them, but will trump up charges as was done in the USSR and China.
It won’t be going against the government’s mandate that brings the house down.
The actual charges will be far more sinister and hard to fight like corruption or some public interest. Fifty percent of the charges brought up against priests are false. There is no mention of that fact in the media nor any correction albeit on the back page or next to the public notices for missing pets.
With a complicit government media that we have for propaganda, the circus will be ever growing and snare more people.
Face it. This is a spiritual issue. This is a fight that you can’t win alone.
I’m sure the Bishops know that.
The bishops have never understood that they need to pick a side. They want a lot of things that liberal Dems want like social spending and amnesty for illegals, but then when liberal Dems turn around and have federally mandated abortion, the bishops are shocked. They have never realized that when you get in bed with statists, you are buying into their entire immoral agenda. There is no such thing as moral Socialism. The sooner the bishops understand that, the better. But some never will. They will support the Dems’ expansion of the state and then whine when things like this happen but ultimately do nothing about it.
That is why a second American civil war is coming, mark my words.
The Bishops need our prayers so that they know they aren’t fighting this alone!