STAY OUT OF MY BEDROOM!

 

Two years ago, I wrote a KONK Life column entitled Stay Out Of My Bedroom! It had to do with the morning after pill and politicians who were against it.

I find the need to write a brief bit bearing the same title. Stay Out Of My Bedroom! This time regarding the Catholic Church.

One of the topics discussed last night on my blog talk radio show involved Bishops and birth control. It was revealed monday that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had written a letter to the House of Representatives requesting THE GOVERNMENT BE SHUT DOWN, unless religious employers were given a special right to deny birth control coverage to their employees. In effect, an alteration of certain provisions of Obamacare.

I was confused. I am confused. Just two weeks ago, Pope Francis said the Church had been too obsessed with gays, birth control and abortion. Too doctrinaire. The issue required a new look.  The Bishops apparently did not hear the Pope. The U.S. Bishops are involved once again politically with regard to the birth control issue.

The Good Book says…..render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, to God the things that are God’s. Sounds like separation of Church and State to me as set forth by Jesus himself centuries ago.

I am willing to listen to my priests preach whatever they like from the pulpit. That is their venue. I am adamantly opposed to the Church becoming involved in the political arena, however.

Another part of this whole thing that bothers me involves food. The House of Representatives recently passed a bill removing $40 billion from the food stamp program. A program that helps feed the poor, old and young alike. Free breakfasts for children are on the way out. Milk for babies  whose mothers cannot afford the sustenance is being denied to babies at this very moment because of the government shutdown.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is the President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. A very humorous man. A very fat man. Extremely. His body structure suggests he is eating. And eating well. Though many in his flock are not.

Somewhere along the way, Cardinal Dolan forgot two things. First, the Pope is his boss. How can he come out so forcefully against an item that the Pope recently said was subject to review? Second, how can he support a government shutdown that is contributing to the poor having less food available, especially milk fed babies?

Cardinal Dolan and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are wrong, wrong, wrong! They are the Tea Party of the Catholic Church.

Enjoy your day!

2 comments on “STAY OUT OF MY BEDROOM!

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  2. I would RUSH to point out that “food stamps” is a payoff to the crony capitalists and has nothing to do with “feeding the poor”. Unfortunately, the Gooferment should leave “the poor” to “We, The People”. We can do a FAR better job than the politicians and bureaucrats! If for no other reason than we are closer to the problem. The problem, as pointed out by a fantastic piece, that I wish I could site off the top of my head my a man named Olin (?i think?) that the problem is a loss of “affilitation” of the poor. That is they lose their connections to society that they can draw on for support. Why they get cut off may be drug addiction, bad decisions, poverty, alienation from family, or (he lists more than I can remember). The key is “reconnection”. That’s why private charity, Church, Fraternal Organization, Salvation Army is so much more effective and efficient at “poverty” than Gooferment. Argh!

    Gooferment IS the problem, imho!

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