Bishops' conference blasts nuns for health care endorsement

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said this week that a group of nuns who broke ranks with the powerful conference on health care reform in March is responsible for the controversial legislation's passage.

"Sister Carol and her colleagues are to blame," Cardinal Francis George is quoted as saying in a Catholic News Agency report Wednesday.

George's remarks at a Tuesday meeting of the bishops refer to Carol Keehan, the CEO and president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), whose group endorsed the health care bill. A statement issued by the association prior to the bill's passage said that while the legislation was "far from perfect ... (it) represents great progress in the long effort to make health care available and affordable to everyone in the United States."

Catholic groups, including the bishops' conference, had taken issue with language in the bill that they said was not restrictive enough on abortion.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/16/catholic.bishops.meeting/index.html

[crim son]

1. Yeah, well, to hell with the bishops. Literally. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

2. Who cares what the Catholic Bishops think?

Their credibility is non-existent.

[saigon68]

12. Pedophiles

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Interesting. I went to CHA's Contact Us page and it is kinda disabled.

I was gonna say YOU GO, SR. CAROL!

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Oooh, they stoppped

covering up the sins of their priests long enough to administer a smack-down on the nuns?

[Angry Dragon]

5. I guess he does not think that American deserve affordable health care

If that is the case then when I need health care he will find me knocking on his door for money to pay for any health care I need.

He has no business trying to determine what is best for the American people. If he wants to exempt catholics from health care so be it.

[Doc Martin]

6. Let's Hear It For The Girls (Boys Club is Crumbling)!

[Metta]

7. These people are anti-Christs. "Everyone needs a scapegoat." - Malcolm X.

Happy karma. You know better.

[SILVER__FOX52]

8. The Catholic papal system is destroying

the very, value of that church. Too bad, because they really make themselves, irrelevant.

[CBHagman]

9. Yay, nuns!

Gimme an N!

N!

Gimme a U!

U!

Gimme another N!

N!

Gimme an S!

S!

What's it spell?

NUNS!

Say it again!

NUNS!

I can't hear you...

NUNS!

:bounce:

[Hekate]

10. I spit in their general direction. You go, Sister Carol! nt

[xchrom]

11. Sister Carol...

:headbang: :yourock: :headbang: