Ich denke, wir sollten, so nicht schon geschehen, dringend die US-amerikanischen Bischöfe mit ins Gebet nehmen.

Diese Meldung ist jedenfalls ziemlich verstörend:

>>Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the military's arm of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, criticized the Obama administration's mandate requiring religious institutions to provide contraceptive services to employees in a letter meant to be read at all military Masses.

In the letter, that was to be read on Sunday, he said the mandate was a "blow” to a freedom that U.S. troops have not only fought to defend but for which some have recently died in battle.

“It is a blow to a freedom that you have fought to defend and for which you have seen your buddies fall in battle,” the archbishop wrote.

Another line in his letter said: “We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law.”

The message ingnited so much controversy that the Army's Office of the Chief of Chaplains told the service's senior chaplains not to read the archbishop's letter at Mass, CNS news reports.<<

Nach einigem Hin und Her durfte die Aussendung doch noch verlesen werden, allerdings erst, nach dem EB Broglio einige Passagen entfernt hatte, die von der Armee als "Aufruf zum zivilen Ungehorsam" aufgefasst worden sein sollen.

[Update: Hier noch das wunderbare "Memo" von Thomas Peters: Mr. President, Sie haben ein Problem.]