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California bishop urges faithful to sign up for health insurance
CatholicCulture.org ^ | 3/19/14 | CWN

Posted on 03/20/2014 5:43:24 AM PDT by BlatherNaut

In a letter read at all Masses on the Second Sunday of Lent, Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernardino urged the faithful of his diocese to sign up for health insurance.

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1 posted on 03/20/2014 5:43:24 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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I want the same Health Insurance the Bishop has at the same price he pays.


2 posted on 03/20/2014 5:45:05 AM PDT by AU72
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To: BlatherNaut

Sorry Bishop, but you know not what you speak of. The ACA is an abomination.


3 posted on 03/20/2014 5:51:38 AM PDT by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: BlatherNaut

yes the good Catholics should get on the obamacare train

since abortion and birth control are now mandatory coverage!

d’oh!


4 posted on 03/20/2014 5:51:43 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: BlatherNaut

What place does this have in the role of a Catholic Bishop?


5 posted on 03/20/2014 5:52:52 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: BlatherNaut

“Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernardino urged the faithful of his diocese to sign up for health insurance.”

Give me the book, chapter, and verse for that, Bishop.

If it comes from Mao’s Little Red Book, I’m not interested.


6 posted on 03/20/2014 5:53:57 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: BlatherNaut

The gov’t needs to GET OUT of the church and THIS bisop needs to STFU!!


7 posted on 03/20/2014 6:01:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Reason is that I won’t have anything to do with the catholic Church except education.


8 posted on 03/20/2014 6:05:24 AM PDT by scooby321
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For a man of the cloth to stand up and say something like this...means he wants it both ways, right?

Ask the gov to stay out of religion YET publicly shoots his mouth off about this “O’Care” travesty!!

Really?

9 posted on 03/20/2014 6:10:32 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: BlatherNaut

The US Catholic bishops have been at the forefront of the push for amnesty and socialized medicine. I guess that’s what comes of never having earned an honest dollar in your entire life.


10 posted on 03/20/2014 6:14:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.")
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Bishop: The Lord wants you to sign up for Obamacare even if the premium is double what you paid before.

Parishioner: But that means I won't have enough money to tithe.

Bishop: Well, maybe the Lord doesn't want you to have health insurance that badly after all . . . . . .

11 posted on 03/20/2014 6:17:31 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Commies ‘n Queers now endorsed by Bishops.

We are not amused.


12 posted on 03/20/2014 6:21:19 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: BlatherNaut

I can’t respect a “bishop” who pimps for Obama. Pimping communism is not his job.


13 posted on 03/20/2014 6:22:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Communism kills!!!)
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From the article:
“However, these factors do not mean that we, as Catholics, should disobey the new health care law,” Bishop Barnes added. “If we happen to have an insurance plan that includes services that are objectionable to our faith, which most plans in California do, our response is to not utilize these services … The Affordable Care Act is now part of civil law and as faithful citizens we are obligated to follow it.”

I've only been to San Bernardino a couple times so maybe something has changed, but if not, I wonder how often this same Bishop tells the faithful to turn themselves in to the INS because they're obligated to follow the civil law.

Sounds like a Cafeteria Bishop to me.

14 posted on 03/20/2014 6:26:09 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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“Give me the book, chapter, and verse for that, Bishop.”

Really; Jesus could have used the Good Samaritan parable to push universal health insurance, and He didn’t. As an omniscient God, He knew that 2000 years later would be discussed on the ohter side of the Atlantic Ocean, and He still didn’t endorse universal health insurance...


15 posted on 03/20/2014 6:27:52 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BlatherNaut
“As you may know, the Affordable Care Act requires that all legal residents of the country carry health insurance by April 1 April Fools Day”
16 posted on 03/20/2014 6:31:34 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

During the Spanish Civil War, a dozen bishops, nearly eight thousand priests, and many religious Sisters were executed by the communists between 1936 and 1939. Most were offered their lives if they would give up their faith, and there is no recorded instance of any accepting the offer. I believe the Catholic Church is the true Faith; it has some very imperfect representatives. We’ve fallen very far from the time when eleven of Christ’s apostles (our first priests) accepted martyrdom for their faith.


17 posted on 03/20/2014 6:36:14 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Rashputin

Cardinal O’Malley refers to those who disagree with his stance on amnesty as xenophobic. I highly suspect that he and Bishop Barnes are on the same sheet of music - dancing with the democrats.


18 posted on 03/20/2014 6:37:21 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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We’ve fallen very far from the time when eleven of Christ’s apostles (our first priests) accepted martyrdom for their faith.

Judas was also in their midst.

19 posted on 03/20/2014 6:40:16 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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Hey Bishop....you are advertising for ABORTIONS and CONTRACEPTIVES!!! Plus “Do NOT take the Lord’s Name in Vain” comes to mind.


20 posted on 03/20/2014 6:43:08 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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