White House HHS Compromise: U.S. Bishops "Unacceptable!...Must Recind Mandate""

I didn't figure the Bishops to respond so quickly, however I'm pleased they're not being shy on this matter.
Sometimes it takes them awhile to come out with any type of response especially as one voice. Cardinal Dolan's response is much welcomed.

Reading their official response, one statement by the Bishops popped out at me.

"We just received information about this proposal for the first time this morning; we were not consulted in advance. Some information we have is in writing and some is oral" 
Catholic Bishops: Obama's Solution 'Is Unacceptable' 

Here's another article on this.

Catholic Bishops Oppose Compromise on Birth-Control Insurance   

 
After just hearing a re-cap of the announcement by president Obama on cable, it sounded like all were at the negotiating table working together. One would think that with the first meeting with Cardinal Dolan that he would be there or at least other high ranking church officials would be apart of the talks. 

It doesn't appear so. It more appears that the White House was not approaching this from a good faith standpoint. They were not serious about working with the faithful in resolving this at all. They were looking to having their cake (Mandate) and eating it too...and still making the faithful pay for the cake.

With this quick response from the bishiop's I'm hoping that the WH is realizing that we are not going to go away and we refuse to be mislead.

This Mandate is not just about Catholic institutions paying for contraception, abortifacients, but it's also faithful individual Catholics footing the bill to pay for this through our personal health insurance premiums. 

All faithful Catholics need to be worried about this and should react appropriately against this in the strongest terms. 

I know at our parish for the next three weekends we plan a petition drive related to the objection to this HHS Mandate

I'm still hoping that we will hear about this at our pupit for Sunday mass. We still need the Bishops voice in the form of a letter (or video) expressing the Churches stand AGAINST this HHS mandate and contraception.

Catholcs to arms!
Helmet - Charity
Breastplate and Sword - Faith and Hope 
(Theological Virtues)

 Weekend reading for all Catholics: 
1) Matrimony- Contraception: CCC 2370 
2) Virtues: CCC 1800-1826 (Part III, Article 7 - The Virtues)

The O'Reilly, No Spin Zone - No CCD Zone

Bill O'Reilly has mentioned his Catholicity on more than one occasion, often claiming Sister So-in-So use to keep him in line with her ruler.

Unfortunately Bill's knowledge of his faith and the Catholic truths he opines about leave me with a Simpson "Doh!" on my lips. I can't believe he says some of the things he says about the faith.

Just the other night while finally inviting Santorum onto his show he made some blatant errors on the topic of contraception and Catholic teaching.

• 98% of Catholics don’t follow the teaching:
• It’s like eating meat on Friday:
• It’s a man-made doctrine; Jesus didn’t say it:
 
I didn't get a chance to post on it however I did read a post that had the same thoughts on the interview, so I rather give the recognition to the "  Two Catholic Men and a Blog  " who did a good job with the analysis.

Bill O’Reilly, Rick Santorum & Artificial Contraception  

 Here's the interview:

B16 - Condoms

B16's comments on condom use is hitting the headlines. Fortunately AmP has been keeping track the commotion and has the great coverage.

American Papist
Was Pope B16 misquoted on condoms in Africa? Maybe not.

also..

Patrick Madrid has a great video link of interview on condom usage you can't miss. (thanks Pat)

Pat Madrid - A quick Catholic Case Against Condoms

"Soilant Green Is People !" - Patrick Madrid Article on Contraception

Patrick Madrid has a post on 'The Aging of America' through the contraception issues of today. I've already pointed out the economical affects and claims the Madam Pelosi has proclaimed on national T.V. on a previous post.

Patrick puts some nice points and gleans some light on the medias distorted view on the whole contraception push.

Kind of brought to mind Mr Heston's cry " Soilant Green is People !"

If you are contracepting, you're a part of a very big problem

Global aging, combined with plummeting birth rates, is a catastrophically dangerous menace that only a few people seem to be waking up to. You may not be familiar with terms like “global aging” and “demographic winter,” but you will be soon.

I've been giving public lectures on the problem of global aging for the past 7 years or so, and my audiences are always shocked and dumbfounded as I explain how the West's ever expanding population of old people (due, thank God, to the ever-improving capabilities of bio-medical science), while a good thing in itself, will soon become a prime target for the forced-euthanasia crowd as the decline in birth rates among women of child-bearing age throughout the West (as well as major non-Western countries like Japan and Russia) forces an ever-shrinking number of younger, working citizens to shoulder the economic burden of paying for the retirement benefits consumed by the ever-expanding population of retired, old folks.
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Pelosi "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Pelosi says contraception funding should be a part of the proposed Democrat controlled Congress stimulus package.

I'm not a doom and gloom guy, but these next four years don't look like prolife will be the theme of this administration and congress.

We need some serious prayer as well as major letter & phone action.


PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
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