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Nationwide campaign by conservative bishops to fabricate "an attack on religious liberty"
Conservative bishops around the US urged their priests to preach against the Obama Administration Sunday as somehow having launched an "attack on religious liberty," because the Dept of HHS issued new regulations last week insuring that birth control would be available to women who work for religiously-affiliated hospitals, colleges and other institutions. This early shot in the 2012 presidential election appears to place the leaders of the USCCB squarely on the side of Newt Gingrich and the Republicans. more » |
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President Obama speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast
Speaking Thursday morning, the President said, "In my moments of prayer, I’m reminded that faith and values play an enormous role in motivating us to solve some of our most urgent problems, in keeping us going when we suffer setbacks, and opening our minds and our hearts to the needs of others." more » |
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"We are to serve God wittily, in the tangle of our minds"
Dr David DeCosse at the Univ of Santa Clara explores the clash over conscience between some bishops and the Obama Administration with regard to the new HHS regulations expanding contraceptive insurance coverage from 28 states to the whole nation. more » |
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Please Read: US Catholic
Bishops' "Faithful Citizenship"
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"He gave us strength in time of trouble, wisdom in time of uncertainty, and sharing in time of happiness. He will always be by our side...[May he] be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."Sen Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
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Saturday, February 4, 2012 |
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.
"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
"On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."
Inaugural Address, President Obama
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