Almost a decade ago, our ministry was threatened by the contraceptive mandate – a federal government regulation under the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) that ordered us to provide abortion-inducing drugs in our health plans or face tens of millions of dollars in fines. This would be a death sentence for our ministry.
We cannot hold the hands of the dying elderly while at the same time facilitating the ending of pre-born life. Our faith will not allow it.
It is an argument based on the natural law and though the argument leads to an unpopular conclusion, having read it, I think it is the correct conclusion.
Our government is full of pedophiles. Are we supposed to stop caring about President Trump because of them? Of course not. The fact of the matter is, if they can strip a group of nuns of their God given rights, and you choose to be silent about it because you don’t like them, then you have no claim to sympathy as they come to take yours.
"This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."[119] He accused her of hypocrisy for choosing advanced treatment for her heart condition.[120][121] Hitchens said that "her intention was not to help people", and that she lied to donors about how their contributions were used. "It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn't working to alleviate poverty", he said, "She was working to expand the number of Catholics. She said, 'I'm not a social worker. I don't do it for this reason. I do it for Christ. I do it for the church.'"
Many people don't understand the Catholic position on birth control.
It is outlined in Humanae Vitae.
It is an argument based on the natural law and though the argument leads to an unpopular conclusion, having read it, I think it is the correct conclusion.
So it’s okay if the government temples on peoples rights, so long as you don’t like them? I thought that was how the Left works, not us.
Our government is full of pedophiles. Are we supposed to stop caring about President Trump because of them? Of course not. The fact of the matter is, if they can strip a group of nuns of their God given rights, and you choose to be silent about it because you don’t like them, then you have no claim to sympathy as they come to take yours.
From Hitchens
"This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."[119] He accused her of hypocrisy for choosing advanced treatment for her heart condition.[120][121] Hitchens said that "her intention was not to help people", and that she lied to donors about how their contributions were used. "It was by talking to her that I discovered, and she assured me, that she wasn't working to alleviate poverty", he said, "She was working to expand the number of Catholics. She said, 'I'm not a social worker. I don't do it for this reason. I do it for Christ. I do it for the church.'"
THIS