Election 2012: Subsidiarity | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Subsidiarity must be paired with solidarity - and not only in government or business, but also in the life of the Church. Where a congregation can do something, the bishop should stay out of it. That includes hiring Deacon-Adminstrators so that priests can focus on something other than property issues. Doing so, and creating non-profit structures to administer most social functions, will allow the Church to do more and the state to do less. Some still get the willies at the thought of the bishops owning governmental services under the Church's Medieval organizational structures (which conveniently duck the issue in attempts to sue the Holy See over the actions of its bishops in covering up sexual abuse).
As for the HHS mandate, it is only enforcing decisions by the Institute of Medicine - which is the proper forum to decide on what is preventative care. While picking a fight with the Church was a sorry bit of political distraction, the bishops were also spoiling for a fight and went into this fray willingly (still ignoring the fact that most Catholic organizations have been paying for birth control as part of preventative coverage since 2000 - something MSW has still not acknowledged in any blog entry).
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