The following comes from a January 5 Catholic News Agency article:
On the cusp of 2016, the president of the U.S. Bishops Conference is calling for greater protection of pro-life professionals and organizations in the year ahead.
Archbishop Kurtz, who heads the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, lamented the absence of the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) in Congress’ 2016 omnibus funding bill. He warned that the failure to include robust conscience protections against participation in abortion is a cause for grave concern.
The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act had been included in the House of Representatives’ draft Labor / Department of Health and Human Services appropriations bills since 2013, but was never enacted. Its provisions would strengthen protections provided by the Weldon Amendment and the Church Amendments.
The Weldon Amendment has been included in HHS appropriations bills since 2005. It bars U.S. states that accept federal funds from discriminating against institutions and health care entities that do not provide coverage of abortion or refer for abortions. The Church Amendments, first passed in the 1970s, bar individuals and entities from being required to violate their religious beliefs or moral convictions against abortion as part of a government program.
In an October 25 primer, the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities analyzed the proposed Abortion Non-Discrimination Act.
The primer points to several cases of coercion. Cathy DeCarlo, a nurse at a New York hospital, who was forced by her superiors to dismember a 22-week-old unborn child in 2009. Vanderbilt University has told nurses that they must assist in abortions despite their objections. In California in 2014, the state’s department of managed health care told Catholic and other organizations they must include unlimited elective abortion coverage in employee health plans.
The Rot – just got a lot rotten=er:
“National Catholic Reporter names gay couple ‘persons of the year’ for role in overturning marriage
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/national-catholic-reporter-names-gay-couple-persons-of-the-year-for-role-in
The flagship newspaper for dissident Catholics in the U.S. confirmed its opposition to Catholic moral teaching as the year 2015 came to a close by naming a gay-“married” couple as “persons of the year” for their role in undermining natural marriage.
The National Catholic Reporter hailed the plaintiff couple in the Obergefell v. Hodges case…The time for acknowledgement of sinful lifestyles is over, according NCR.”
The “National Catholic REPORTER” was officially condemned in 1968 by the Diocese Bishop.
This condemnation was never lifted, and reaffirmed in 2013.
Jail Time 4 Thought Crime – and No money to pay an attorney, who would be jailed for ‘contempt’ too, if they fail to pander to such insanity:
New York City initiates the most severe ‘transgender rights’ enforcement in America
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/new-york-city-initiates-the-most-severe-transgender-rights-enforcement-in-a
This is where the radical “non-discrimination” laws are taking us, unless we stop them.
On Dec. 21, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights announced that it has re-interpreted the city’s transgender anti-discrimination law. The result is more radical and oppressive than we’ve seen so far in the U.S. It covers all people in the areas of employment, public accommodations (i.e., restaurants,…
The top 10 issues facing Catholic education in the US for 2016
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-top-10-issues-facing-catholic-education-in-the-us-for-2016?
Transgender Issues on Campus
This issue has not gone unnoticed by Church leadership. Pope Francis has commented on the danger that gender ideology presents to young people and concerns for widespread “gender ideology” indoctrination in schools were discussed at the recent Synod on the Family in Rome…
Gender theory is becoming more prevalent in Catholic schools and colleges across the country, and the Newman Society reported multiple instances of colleges implementing “gender inclusive” policies in 2015. Gender-neutral restroom policies — which remove traditional “male”…
The leaders of our Church are deviant and cowardly, thinking that Judeo-Christian morality can merely be lightly preserved and enforced, by means of secular legislation! No, religion and morality need to be taught and practiced, from babyhood, in the American family home, with regular attendance at the church/synagogue of the family’s choice! When an American citizen gets elected to public office, they will have a Judeo-Christian religious and moral training and background, and regular practice, to work with!
If the USCCB wants a better America, with belief in God, solid in a moral conscience, with respect for the Ten Commandments, and all the laws of God– then the Catholic Church must be willing to do the necessary work, of teaching and preaching the Catholic Faith to all its members, and also guarding the Faith, by making sure that all of its parishes, schools, hospitals, charities, and all Catholic institutions, are run solidly upon our Church’s true teachings! Plus– to excommunicate members who refuse to abide by the Church’s teachings!
This includes encouraging all literate Catholics to read at HOME –
1) a Catholic Bible;
2) “Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition” (aka CCC; 1997; dark green cover in the USA).
The Bible contains the inspired Word of God.
The CCC contains the Doctrine of the Faith.
“. . . forced by her superiors to dismember a 22-week-old unborn child . . .”
Conscience protection? It seems Miss DeCarlo’s Pro-Job stance trumped her Pro-Life stance.
The $1.1 TRILLION dollar Omnibus Spending bill of Dec 18, 2015 – actually FUNDS Planned Parenthood. It passed the House and Senate, and signed by the President.
House: GOP Yea 150; Nay 95; nv 1. DEM Yea 166; Nay 18; nv 4.
Senate: Yes 65; No 33; NV 2.
OBAMA will never sign a bill against abortion, or funding of abortion.