{"id":32026,"date":"2012-04-17T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_religion_blog_stephen_prothero-roman_catholic_bishops_are_speaking_aga\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:15:58","slug":"cnn_religion_blog_stephen_prothero-roman_catholic_bishops_are_speaking_aga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32026","title":{"rendered":"(CNN Religion Blog) Stephen Prothero&#8211;Roman Catholic bishops are speaking against the common good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will admit that the HHS contraception rule does ask these Catholic clerics to sacrifice something. But what is this sacrifice? Simply to allow the women who work for their organizations to be offered contraceptive coverage by their insurers. To refuse this sacrifice is not to uphold civil society. It is to refuse to participate in it.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of their statement, the 15 bishops who signed this statement called on every U.S. Catholic to join in a \u201cgreat national campaign\u201d\u009d on behalf of religious liberty. More specifically, they called for a \u201cFortnight for Freedom\u201d\u009d concluding with the Fourth of July when U.S. dioceses can celebrate both religious liberty and martyrs who have died for the Catholic cause.<\/p>\n<p>As Independence Day approaches, I have a prediction. I predict that rank-and-file American Catholics will ignore this call.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/15\/catholics-bishops-statement-fosters-uncivil-society\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will admit that the HHS contraception rule does ask these Catholic clerics to sacrifice something. But what is this sacrifice? Simply to allow the women who work for their organizations to be offered contraceptive coverage by their insurers. To<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32026\">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":[39,40,50,42,513,209,104,617,114,96,616,154,151,108,364,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32026","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=32026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}