Raising the Curtain for the USCCB Plenary | National Catholic Reporter

Raising the Curtain for the USCCB Plenary | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The bishops were badly staffed in getting into this fight in the first place, as birth control has been required in policies with preventatives services since 2000.  Indeed, even before it was required, many Catholic organizations had policies which did not exclude it BECAUSE the cared about the frreedom of concience of their staffs.  That is where it resides, not with the bishops, who are, by the way, wrong on contraception anyway.  The reason to oppose it is not because a life is ended, since life does not begin meaningfully until gastrulation.  The reason to oppose it is because it is a cop out to workers demanding more pay for larger families.  That is the sin and the Church is no less guilty of that sin than any other employer.  Indeed, they are more guilty because they know better and do not do better.  If the Church has a conscience, it needs to take it to confession on how it treats its employees.  As for Obama, it was Valerie Jarrett who set Dolan up, not Obama.  Indeed, she set Obama up as well (and Sebelius).  She won't be punished, because the whole culture war thing has benefited the Democrats much more than it has benefited the Church.  The election in Virginia should be proof of that enough.