usccb.org - 11/12/2008
—
7 Cardinals currently lead U.S. archdioceses Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Galveston-Houston Cardinal Edward Egan New York Cardinal Francis George - Chicago Cardinal Roger Mahony Los Angeles Cardinal Adam Maida Detroit Cardinal Sean O'Malley - Boston Cardinal Justin Rigali Philadelphia 5 ...
usccb.org - 11/14/2008
—
usccb.org —
BALTIMORE Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), voiced...
hope for the Obama Administration but pointed to possible obstacles to our desired unity, in a Nov. 12 statement at the end of ...
(more)
(Office of Media Relations) -Cardinal George Voices ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Catholic bishops: Fight FOCA
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... should be willing to close some health facilities rather them allow them to be subject to a mandate to do abortions from the Obama administration. How serious are they? So serious that they won’t bother to sell the hospitals. They’ll shut them down and take the losses in order to prevent their use as abortion clinics. To do otherwise, the bishops stated, would be to cooperate in the evil of abortions. What kind of impact would that have? The Catholic Church is one of the nation’s biggest health-care providers . In 2007, they ran 557 hospitals that serviced over 83 million ...
Catholic Church to Democratic Party: FOCA's a nonstarter.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Note the double-tier there, read "will mean discontinuing" for
"could mean discontinuing," and read "be unsurprised if we take"
for "we may need to consider taking." Also note, as Ed did, that
they're not talking about handing off the facilities to somebody
who's not pro-life. This is a down-the-line stance against being
involved with abortions at all, at all. And, yet again as Ed notes,
the Church is a very large health-care
provider. ...
Related Content
St. Mary's Catholic Church
stmarysgvl.org 11/14/2008 — A priest at a South Carolina Roman Catholic church says his parishioners shouldn’t take Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because of the Democrat’s stance on abortion.
Church and state: The issue of Prop. 8
sfgate.com 11/10/2008 — The approval of a constitutional ban on gay marriage raises troubling but age-old issues concerning the lines between religion and government. Before the founders of our country separated church and state, there were hundreds of years of turmoil ...
There Is No UNITED States!
westernfrontamerica.com 10/30/2008 — There is a thread of fear running through the right side of the political spectrum in America. It is so real you can taste it. You can see it in the eyes of conservatives. You can hear it in their voices and you can even physically hear it when it is whispered into your ear.
The Transition Begins, Poorly Lit
swampland.blogs.time.com 11/13/2008 — The first public briefing by America's new shadow government took place, appropriately enough, in a basement. Not just any basement, mind you, but the basement of an undistinguished rectangular building in the heart of the unremarkable office grid ...
Feingold could lead Senate Foreign Relations
thehill.com 11/7/2008 — Vice President-elect Joe Biden leaves an open chairmanship on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that could end up being filled by one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq war. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), among the chamber’s most liberal ...
Programs - United States
survivorcorps.org 11/18/2008 — US Program: Operation Survivor Since October 2001, more than 1.6 million Americans have served in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 30,000 have returned with physical wounds, but many more return with invisible injuries, including an ...
The Shadow President
tnr.com 11/6/2008 — The bright young think tank staffers at the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP) admire their boss, John Podesta. Podesta, who is also co-managing Barack Obama's presidential transition team, possesses energy (he is a workaholic and marathon ...
Obama health plan to cost $75 billion: analysis —
Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the U.S. health care system would cost the federal government $75 billion but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers ...
U.S. general urges Obama not to cave to Russia —
Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite objections by Russia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to stick to the Bush administration's plans to place missile defenses in Eastern Europe.
...
Healthcare reform gets backing in Congress —
Reuters: Politics 11/13/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to reform the U.S. healthcare system got a big boost on Wednesday as a powerful Democratic senator unveiled a plan similar to President-elect Barack Obama's and an analysis said the financial crisis could accelerate any ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
