US Bishops Stand Strong with New Special Statement on the HHS Mandate

Posted by Matt Yonke (November 18, 2013 at 10:01 am)

Last week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) met in Washington DC for their annual General Assembly.

At the close of their meeting, the Bishops issued public statement, re-affirming their opposition to President Obama’s HHS Mandate:

Beginning in March 2012, in United for Religious Freedom, we identified three basic problems with the HHS mandate: it establishes a false architecture of religious liberty that excludes our ministries and so reduces freedom of religion to freedom of worship; it compels our ministries to participate in providing employees with abortifacient drugs and devices, sterilization, and contraception, which violates our deeply-held beliefs; and it compels our faithful people in business to act against our teachings, failing to provide them any exemption at all.

Despite our repeated efforts to work and dialogue toward a solution, those problems remain. Not only does the mandate undermine our ministries’ ability to witness to our faith, which is their core mission, but the penalties it imposes also lay a great burden on those ministries, threatening their very ability to survive and to serve the many who rely on their care.

Read the full statement at the USCCB website, and let’s continue to uphold in prayer the US bishops and all those leading the fight for our religious liberty!

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