Showing posts with label American Bishops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Bishops. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The bishops are Being Betrayed

Message from Father Eunteneuer: Reform the CCHD Now!

Dear Friends in Christ,

Please join me in signing the Reform CCHD Now (RCN) petition here.

The language of the petition is very simple: "To ensure no more Catholic dollars are spent to support organizations advocating abortion or same-sex marriage, I respectfully request the bishops suspend all national CCHD grants until the grants process has been reformed."
Read the rest HERE

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Bishop Doran Weighs in Against Obama Health Care Overhaul

 By Kathleen Gilbert

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Another U.S. Catholic bishop has joined in criticizing President Obama's health care overhaul, insisting that any such legislation must avoid promoting abortion and urging against the unwarranted expansion of government into the private sphere.

Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Illinois wrote in the diocesan newspaper The Observer last month that the principles of subsidiarity, solidarity, and interest in the common good are indispensable to positive health care reform. Doran advised that health care be treated as "more of a market than a system," and warned against the pitfalls of a government takeover.

"Our federal bureaucracy is a vast wasteland strewn with the carcasses of absurd federal programs which proved infinitely worse than the problems they were established to correct," wrote Doran.

Doran's remarks reflect the widespread unrest among conservative Americans that led to a massive grassroots rally on Saturday against the Obama administration's health care initiative and government expansion. Estimates for the number of attendees at the "tea party" protest on Capitol Hill spanned from "tens of thousands" to well over a million.

The bishop also wrote that, "whatever we do," respect for "all human life from conception to natural death" is the first principle that must be respected in any such bill.

Read the rest here.

Friday, September 4, 2009

List: Bishops against ObamaCare

The American Papist is listing the American Bishops who have made strong statements about ObamaCare and what would – from a Catholic perspective – need to be considered in any debate about health care reform.

Here is the list so far:
  1. Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, PA
  2. & Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, NY
  3. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, CO
  4. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, NY
  5. Bishop Walker Nickless of Sioux City, IA
  6. Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, ND
  7. Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, IA
  8. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, KS
  9. & Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO
  10. Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN
  11. Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, VA
  12. Bishop Robert Guglielmone of Charleston, SC
  13. Bishop Richard Lennon of Cleveland, OH (PDF)
  14. Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte, NC
  15. & Bishop Michael Burbidge of Raleigh, NC
  16. Bishop Jerome Listecki of La Crosse, WI (PDF)
  17. Bishop Blase Cupich of Rapid City, SD (PDF)
  18. Bishop Donald Trautman of Eire, PA (PDF)
  19. Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, PA
  20. Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, CT
  21. Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, IL
  22. Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ (part II here)
  23. Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock, AR
  24. Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, WI
  25. Bishop Paul Coakley of Salina, KS
  26. Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio, TX
  27. & Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Antonio, TX
  28. Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, NE
  29. Bishop Alex Sample of Marquette, MI
  30. Bishop Victor Galeone of St. Augustine, FL