A.L.L.: Bishops Must Choose Between Christ-Centered Care and Obamacare

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Obama prepares to address
the nation Wednesday on his health care plan, American Life League challenged
the nation's Catholic bishops to be prepared to shut down Catholic health care
and make it clear that they prefer this action to compromising with the
intrinsic evils currently contained in various Obamacare proposals.

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"Obama speaks tonight. Christ speaks always. When it comes to health care
reform which road will our Catholic bishops take?" the group asked in a
Washington Times ad.

The ad highlighted six principled positions Catholic-supported health care
must include: opposition to abortion, contraception, sterilization, human
embryonic stem cell therapy, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Judie Brown, president of American Life League, the country's largest
grassroots Catholic pro-life organization, said the ad addressed a critical
question from the nation's lay Catholic faithful: Why are the bishops largely
remaining silent in opposition to the deadly provisions contained in Obamacare
proposals?

"The president has laid before us a government mandate to subsidize a culture
of death and impose it on Catholic health care," Brown said. "We desperately
need our bishops to lead the fight against this plan so diametrically opposed
to the Faith - yet their silence speaks their approval."

The ad quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) who in 1997
said:

"The words of the Bible and of the Church fathers rang in my ears, those sharp
condemnations of shepherds who are like mute dogs; in order to avoid
conflicts, they let the poison spread. Peace is not the first civic duty, and
a bishop whose only concern is not to have any problems and to gloss over as
many conflicts as possible is an image I find repulsive."

"For the American bishops, the choice is simple," Brown said. "Embrace
Obamacare and sell the soul of the Church to government bureaucrats and
politicians or embrace the Faith and be prepared to shut down Catholic health
care rather than participate in intrinsic evil. We ask the bishops to unite
behind Christ and His teachings now while there is still time to have a
positive effect on the road ahead."

American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest
grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is
committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of
creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please
contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
American Life League: Obama Speaks Tonight; Christ Speaks Always
http://all.org/bishops/
http://all.org/article.php?id=12178

SOURCE American Life League

Katie Walker of the American Life League, +1-540-659-4942, kwalker@all.org