The Hysterical Hysteria of Catholic Bishops

Archbishop Timothy Dolan popped off again about the incredible dangers (please read italics as supreme sarcasm) of the requirement that organizations related to the Catholic Church having to pay for birth control and how it is "strangling" the Church. Quoth Archbishop Timmy:

Dolan also criticized Georgetown University's decision to invited Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak to graduates of its school of public policy last week because of her role in formulating the policy.

"Well, I do think that's a problem. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic university in the country. Part of Catholic identity is to be in union with the bishops," Dolan said.

"When they would invite someone that is so dramatically at odds with one of the central tenets of the faith, that does bother us," Dolan said. (Emphasis added).

Seriously? Central tenets of the Catholic faith? That is REALLY what we are going with here? I was once a dutiful Catholic back in the day. I played CYO basketball, which my dad headed up for our church (starting PG for the 18-0 champs, but I digress... and also it's not like it was AAU), I was an thankfully untouched alter boy, and I went to Catholic HS, which probably definitely started my path as a fallen Catholic. My Catholic street cred is legit and I'd like to think I know a thing or two about the religion yet I do not remember the religion class where avoiding any association birth control was a central tenet of the faith. I am sure that he means that all sex must be procreative to be given the ole papal a-okay, but that does not really strike me as a CENTRAL tenet either. What I do remember being the first and foremost tenet, or golden rule if you will, was to love others like you love yourself. What happened to that rule? Where is that Church? Are your current actions how you want to be treated by women, or by homosexuals, or by children who trusted in their priests? Though my HS hierarchy's refusal to adequately engage with an inquisitive student's questions rather than simply shouting FAITH, started me down the path, the despicable actions of the Church hierarchy the past decade or so after I graduated really solidified the position.

Hopefully one day this will change, but I definitely have no faith that it will.

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UPDATE: As should be expected since a majority of Catholic women, 66.4% of all married Catholic women in 1973, do not follow the Church's ban on contraceptives, there is not actually a Catholic voting bloc. So the GOP might want to be careful catering to that non-existent bloc....