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- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:45:34 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH: BIRTH CONTROL AND CONTRACEPTION :
RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: CATHOLIC :
POLITICS: LOBBYING:
Birth Control Debate:
Why Catholic Bishops Have Lost Their Grip
on U.S. Politics and Their Flock
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Birth Control Debate:
Why Catholic Bishops Have Lost Their Grip on U.S. Politics and Their Flock
By Tim Padgett
February 13, 2012
Time
http://swampland.time.com/2012/02/13/birth-control-debate-why-
catholic-bishops-have-lost-their-grip-on-u-s-politics-and-their-flock/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7x447x6
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The Vaticans timing was ironic. While Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S.
were trying to revive their moral and political clout last week by
battling President Obama over contraception coverage and religious
liberty, a papally endorsed symposium was underway in Rome on how the
Church has to change if it wants to prevent sexual abuse crises, the very
tragedy that has shriveled the stature of Catholic prelates worldwide over
the past decade, especially in the U.S. One monsignor at the Vatican
gathering even suggested the hierarchy had been guilty of omert the Mafia
code of silence, by protecting abusive priests.
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The Roman forum was a reminderand the birth control clash is turning out
to be one as well of just how much influence the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops has lost in the 10 years since the abuse crisis erupted
in America. It hopes that its protest of a new federal rule requiring
religiously affiliated institutions like Catholic hospitals and
universities to provide no-cost contraception in their health insurance
coverage, even if church doctrine forbids birth control, will help restore
the bishops relevance. They did win a partial victory last Friday when
Obama, acknowledging the uproar, said those institutions would no longer
have to pay for the contraception coverage themselves. But the President
did not fully genuflect: The compromise will still oblige religious-based
employers to offer the coverage, while their insurance providers foot the
bill.
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Although major Catholic groups like Catholic Charities and Catholic Health
Services accepted that revision, the bishops are holding out for more. But
their crusade to be exempted from the mandate is likely to fall short of
its grail. If so, its because Obama read the Catholic flock better than
its shepherds did.
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Granted, the bishops, led by New York Archbishop and Cardinal-elect
Timothy Dolan, did get the White House to acknowledge how high-handedly
and ham-handedly it had managed the contraception debateconfirming along
the way the publics wariness of the so-called liberal eliteand convinced
it to craft a deal that should have been policy in the first place. Yet in
his refusal to cave completely to the religious liberty campaign, Obama
has illustrated the reality that the bishops no longer speak for most U.S.
Catholicsthe nations largest religious denomination and a critical
swing-voter groupon a host of moral issues, according to polls.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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