If a Catholic hospital pays an employee any more than enough to keep body and soul together, that person may do all kinds of wicked things with that money.

We wouldn’t want Catholics to have to accept moral complicity for that “evil”. So let’s give Catholic employers exemptions from the minimum wage laws, too. (I’ll bet 0bama caves on this one, too).

OK.
Catholics will trade provision of disapproved drugs,
for the banishment of burquas.

Do people get treated at catholic hospitals for only catholic diseases?

Good morning, pups. We’ve got Kristof and Collins this morning. Mr. Kristof takes a look at “The White Underclass” and says we need a national conversation about the dimensions of poverty or a chunk of working-class America could be calcified into an underclass. In “Tales From the Kitchen Table” Ms. Collins says the issue of covering contraceptives in health care plans has Catholic bishops in an uproar. Let’s try to talk through this in a calm, measured manner.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got your favorite omelet for breakfast. Despite the urgings of Ms. Collins I find it very difficult to be calm and measured when faced with the current war on contraception. Welcome to the new Talibangelical theocracy. Enjoy your stay.

morning all,

Sweet land of liberty and the rule of law./s

If the requirement that an employer provide access to contraceptives as part of a health insurance plan makes an employer a sinner, Cardinal Francis George is in deep doodoo, because it’s the law in Illinois (and the Archdiocese of Chicago) as well as 25 other states.

My name is Francis
How do you do.

Kickin’ and a gougin’ in the mud and the blood and the sacramental wine.

Kristof and WuDunn’s Half the Sky tells powerful stories of global women’s empowerment.

One hopes he has a book in the works on America’s woeful treatment of its growing underclass.

Marion, always look forward to your lists…and your breakfasts….

I remember sitting in a pew in L.A.,1991 I think, on Easter Sunday morning mass, with a new girlfriend and her whole family. The day of redemption, the day of resurrection.

The Bishop gave the sermon that day. I don’t know what he actually said, what I heard was a defense of pederasty. I stood and gave loud voice to my revulsion, and walked out.

I wasn’t exactly devout prior to that experience, ever since……I can’t hear what the Catholic church is saying……because what they are is screaming so loudly.

Small wonder the Catholic Church is closing its schools and churches all over the Western hemisphere. The Church is run by a bunch of controlling, old, weird men, morons. If they let priests marry and allowed women equal staus of being priests, monsignors, bishops etc., the Church might survive for another 50 years. However, the whole story, at least the exterior, non-business story, never made any sense to begin with.

Thanks to John Paul II, the current batch of bishops and cardinals across the planet is the most dogmatic, dictatorial and tone-deaf group in centuries. (You could probably add “morally bankrupt,” too.) I’d suggest an “Occupy Vatican” movement, right under the dome of St. Peter’s, but Benedict would just cheerfully excommunicate them.

Why anyone, let alone Barry Zero, would chose to “cave in” to this group of perverted misognynistic pederasts is beyond me.

Oh wait: it’$ all about the money, i$n’t it? Money talk$. Young children & women can $TFU & deal with the card$ they’re dealt. Prai$e Jeebu$!

Of course he will cave, it is what he does best. That and protect Big Banks and Wall Street.

Most left wing Vatican II Catholics I know are either leaving the Church or running services on their own. They have given up on the institutional church.