The Catholic Church - Silent No More

Recently, 43 Catholic Institutions have sued HHS, Health and Human Services of the Obama Administration, for mandating that religious institutions provide in their insurance coverage benefits that cover sterilization, abortion and contraception, all of which violate Church Law and the right under the First Amendment to religious liberty with the right to form one's conscience according to religious belief without infringement from government.


The U.S. Catholic Bishops are taking further action to mobilize Catholics within their parishes to be ready for protests and even civil disobedience against this unconstitutional mandate.


It is reassuring that the Catholic church is finally taking a firm and unequivocal stand against, in particular, abortion. The Conference of Catholic Bishops has always made it clear in documents provided for Catholics to form their consciences before voting, that abortion is the greatest evil of our time.  However the fight against this primary evil has not been heretofore promulgated in many Catholic parishes across the nation and such documentation against the evil of abortion has been somewhat muddied by listing other issues such as taking care of the poor, and being against war and other important issues, as being issues that every Catholic must be concerned with and not just consider abortion as the only issue of concern, without being concerned as much about the others. Up to this point many Catholics have been voting for Democrats who are staunchly pro-abortion with the excuse that these same Democrats are concerned about other social issues such as their concerns about the poor.  


Let us hope that more Catholics understand that killing the unborn is of such vital concern that no politician of any party who declares him or herself to be pro-abortion should receive their vote, even if otherwise such a candidate appears to be a most exemplary choice.


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