{"id":30781,"date":"2012-02-11T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_united_states_conference_of_catholic_bishops_statement_in_response_to_t\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:48:52","slug":"the_united_states_conference_of_catholic_bishops_statement_in_response_to_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30781","title":{"rendered":"The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement in response to the White House Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/news\/2012\/12-025.cfm\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sees initial opportunities in preserving the principle of religious freedom after President Obama\u2019s announcement today. But the Conference continues to express concerns. \u201cWhile there may be an openness to respond to some of our concerns, we reserve judgment on the details until we have them,\u201d\u009d said Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of USCCB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past three weeks have witnessed a remarkable unity of Americans from all religions or none at all worried about the erosion of religious freedom and governmental intrusion into issues of faith and morals,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s decision to revise how individuals obtain services that are morally objectionable to religious entities and people of faith is a first step in the right direction,\u201d\u009d Cardinal-designate Dolan said. \u201cWe hope to work with the Administration to guarantee that Americans\u2019 consciences and our religious freedom are not harmed by these regulations.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sees initial opportunities in preserving the principle of religious freedom after President Obama\u2019s announcement today. But the Conference continues to express concerns. \u201cWhile there may be an openness to respond<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30781\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,513,168,104,114,96,98,616,154,151,667,108,364,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}