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What's most exasperating to me, is that there are certainly individuals, parties and factions in the Church which are strongly statist and which for my entire lifetime have never been corrected or reined in by the authentic teachers.

In the run-up to Obamacare (all of 2009) the USCCB staffers were putting out reams of ecclesiastical bafflegab which never (to my knowledge) even mentioned subsidiarity --- the "small and local" principle which is so essential to Christian responsiility and liberty.

One either has to assume incompetence, culpability, or agreement on the part of the bishops. IMO the kinder option is to assume that the bishops agree with the staffers, up to and including Dolan. I just don't see another explanation.

I honestly don't know what to make of it. I was corresponding with one of those staffers 3 years ago, one of the "should'a known better" guys, and couldn't believe he could be so naive. "Naive" seemed to be it.

He seemed to think that the choosing of different levels and nifferent "recipes" of insurance coverage would still be in the hands of individuals, employers, private insurers,church-related networks, for-profits, nonprofits, states, and that just a more equitable funding framwork was involved.

I argued that that couldn't possibly the the case. I could see as clear as daylight that government mandatory powers would minutely control the thing all the way through and from top to bottom.

I still can hardly beliueve he and his bishop-bosses didn't see that. Like Stupak --- inexplicable stupidity.