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Wall Street Journal sees 'chilling' attack on Church freedom
Wall Street Journal sees 'chilling' attack on Church freedom
March 06, 2012
A stinging Wall Street Journal editorial has backed Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York in his criticism of the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate, describing the White House stand as a “chilling” attack on religious freedom.
Citing Cardinal Dolan’s report on a meeting with White House aides, at which representatives of the bishops’ conference were told that issues of conscience were “off the table,” the Journal editorial observed: “In other words, the White House's solution is merely for the bishops to shut up about the wrinkles.” With their condescending citation of some liberal Catholics who approved the mandate, theJournal continued, the Obama administration was “in effect telling the bishops that they know less about church teachings than your average Washington Postcolumnist.”
The Journal recognized the Obama administration’s strategy of dividing the Church, noting the implicit White House message that “Catholics who actually abide by their faith are opposed to modernity.” The editorial concluded with the observation that apparently the Catholic bishops cannot stop “the dominant wing of America's governing political party from insisting that religion kneel before its secular will.”
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