Pastors Who Would Tear The Wings Off Cardinal Dolan’s Message by Judi McLeod
Nudging President Barack Obama out of the sanctuary of the Roman Catholic Church, is going to need helping hands of both the celestial and earth bound.
St. Michael and the Archangels must be rooting for Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, but are foot soldiers on Mother Earth being tossed aside by the rank and file ostensibly on Cardinal Dolan’s side?
Pastor Fr. Dan Papineau at St. Benedict’s Catholic Church in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, has cut two parishioners off from an already agreed to letter campaign, and blames his change of mind on the local bishop’s office.
“I received a response from a Diocesan spokesperson on the review of the text and procedure for implementing the Religious Freedom Campaign as reviewed by the Vicar General, Monsignor Richard Harris,” Fr. Papineau wrote in a letter to parishioners Cathy Tyler and Sherri Timmerman.
Fr. Papineau states the following:
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“The matters we are concerned about are within the province of the Bishop and only the Bishop can speak from the pulpit.
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The letters are political in nature and could cause an IRS investigation resulting in the loss of our 501c status.
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Priest (sic) should never issue political statements or promote letters that they have drafted.
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And that this initiative is a dangerous precedent that should not be done.” (Emphasis CFP’s).
They recommend referring the parishioners to read the statement put out by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops in reference to the HHS Mandate.
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