{"id":31166,"date":"2012-03-04T06:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_dolan_voices_dismay_at_handling_by_white_house_in_letter_updating_\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T06:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T06:20:59","slug":"cardinal_dolan_voices_dismay_at_handling_by_white_house_in_letter_updating_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31166","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Dolan Voices Dismay at Handling by White House in Letter Updating Bishops on HHS Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given church concerns about religious freedom, Cardinal Dolan wrote, \u201cthe President invited us to \u201d\u02dcwork out the wrinkles.\u2019 We have accepted that invitation. Unfortunately, this seems to be stalled: the White House Press Secretary, for instance, informed the nation that the mandates are a fait accompli (and, embarrassingly for him, commented that we bishops have always opposed Health Care anyway, a charge that is scurrilous and insulting, not to mention flat out wrong.\u201d\u009d)<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Dolan also said that \u201cThe White House already notified Congress that the dreaded mandates are now published in the Federal Registry \u201d\u02dcwithout change.\u2019 He added that \u201cThe Secretary of HHS is widely quoted as saying, \u201d\u02dcReligious insurance companies don\u2019t really design the plans they sell based on their own religious tenets.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t bode well for their getting a truly acceptable &#8216;accommodation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/news\/2012\/12-039.cfm\">Read it all<\/a> and note the link to the full letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given church concerns about religious freedom, Cardinal Dolan wrote, \u201cthe President invited us to \u201d\u02dcwork out the wrinkles.\u2019 We have accepted that invitation. Unfortunately, this seems to be stalled: the White House Press Secretary, for instance, informed the nation that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31166\">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":[39,40,42,101,104,114,96,98,616,154,151,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","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-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31166","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=31166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}