Dopes poke sleeping giant

40 Catholic institutions are suing the P-BO administration for demanding that Catholics pay for Sandy Fluke’s birth control and abortions. Good. Catholics have been pretty much go along to get along with Demo-Dopes with regard to anything and everything under imprimatur of “social justice.”  And does anyone recall the Lexmeister's prediction that, if passed, P-BOcare would be litigated into the next century?  Well here we go again.


ASIDE: I had to laugh when I read that Notre Dame had joined the suit. This is the same Notre Dame that gave the P-BO an honorary degree not too long ago. Could this be the great awakening?

The church should have viewed itself as a competitor with the government in the arena of “social justice” issues. Instead it has seen itself as a partner. As such the church has taken federal dollars for government programs in education, healthcare and other programs ministering to the poor. Like the high school administrators in the post 2 under discovered when they left a coke machine plugged in over the lunch period, when you take the king’s shilling you must do the king’s bidding.

So now the church and the feds are so intertwined in programs it’s hard to see where one starts and the other leaves off. Georgetown University is the perfect example. Last week, the nominally Jesuit University invited excommunicated Catholic HHS Secretary responsible for the contraceptive mandate - Kathleen Sebelius - to be the commencement speaker at graduation. That’s enough to make to knock a thinking man off his lunch. WTF (win the future)?

ASIDE: Thomas Franks wrote a book, “What’s the matter With Kansas?” Kathleen Sebelius pretty much answers Frank’s question.

If possible, the university president should be fired. If that’s not possible the Catholic Bishops should begin divesting from the university. Sell what can be sold off and take the money to start a new Catholic university or improve the ones that adhere to the Catholic way.

The real problem here is that the bishops have been accomplices in this BS for 40 years. Now they want out of the deal they made with the devil in the form Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, John Kerry, the Kennedys et al. The bishops have allowed these poseurs to violate all manner of Catholic doctrine while maintaining their “Catholic” identity without so much as a “Hold on there Skippy. You’re getting a bit far a field of what we’re teaching with regard to this abortion stuff.”

Time to paraphrase one of my favorite quotes:
As Marine Commandant Maj. William Ward Burrows might have put it , “We have just caught a Catholic abortionist politician and after getting him to give us money to fund our University, he now wants us to pay for the abortions. Until we can break our ties with the Dopes and excommunicate the lot loudly and publicly, we will continue to be plagued by this hypocritical behavior."  Whose hypocritical behavior?  Both - politicians and bishops - of course.

Cardinal Dolan needs to make the Catholic case in the arena of “social justice” loud and clear:
Catholics have been working these issues for 2,000 years. We have been feeding the poor, clothing and housing, healing and educating them since St. Peter. We have done it better, cheaper and with more compassion than any government program. We will not abandon our proven methods in favor of overly expensive and bureaucratic methods that mark nearly every federal program. We will not take federal money for our programs, even though that is the most efficient money the government spends, if it means compromising our catechism. We will not comply with any government “mandate” that requires that we betray our faith.

It’s on. Thank goodness.  It’s never too late to begin to do the right thing.