Obama Pretends He Doesn't Know The Difference Between The Pope and the Dopes

I can't believe this...but Maria was right.

Obama is pretending Carol Keehan's disobedience to religious law is equivocal to the authority of the Pope.

"I can't speak to differences within the Catholic Church,"

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said on Fox News Sunday when reminded that "the most powerful statement by the Catholic Church in this country" was a denunciation of Obama's att empt at accomodation. "I would point to the statement put out by the Catholic Health Association which knows a fair amount about what it requires to [provide] health care in this country," he added.

They don't know what the differences are within the Catholic Church and can't speak to them.

In their ignorance they knew exactly how to avoid getting the official answers on Catholic ethics and religious liberty. What a coincidence.

Wow. They're either really stupid or pathological liars.

Maybe they're both?

The Grinches at Catholics United

Hope your Christmas day was filled with joy, laughter, love and the presence of our newborn King.    We had a great day here at Camp McKinley.      I don't know about you, but I'm not psyched up for this 'blizzard'.   I don't know how to operate my snowblower.  :O)    Guess today's the day I'm going to learn!

Meanwhile, here's something to warm the cockles of your heart...

I somehow missed this, but apparently Chris Korzen and James Salt of Katholycs United responded to Bishop Olmsted's stripping of Catholic status and excommunication over the abortion at St. Joseph's Hospital by asking him to reverse his decision and saying he's too much of a hardliner and out of touch with many Catholics.

In a nutshell, they do a convoluted jig around the 'moral analysis' relied upon to perform the abortion.   The teaching of the Church is that it is never permissible to perform an abortion no matter what the circumstances, even when the abortion would improve the health of the mother.   If a pregnant woman is in a health crisis, medications, operations, procedures that will improve her health are permissible, even if those procedures risk the life of her unborn child, but never an abortion.

It's a tough teaching in the circumstances these individuals were in, but it is the teaching.     The administrator of the Catholic Hospital was there to uphold the teaching.  You tell her we'll do what we can to stabilize the situation until the baby can survive outside of the womb, give her the best medical care available, get the prayers and novena's going.  If the pregnant mother of four made the choice to pursue an abortion, we don't chain people to their hospital beds and she has the option of arranging a transfer to a non-Catholic hospital.

This is why you see a dance around calling the procedure an abortion in their 'moral analysis', as in this Condomweal piece here.

 “ “The procedure performed at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center on November 5, 2009, cannot properly be described as an abortion. The act, per its moral object, must accurately be described as saving the life of the mother. The death of the fetus was, at maximum, nondirect and praeter intentionem. More likely, the fetus was already dying due to the pathological situation prior to the intervention; as such, it is inaccurate to understand the death of the fetus as an accessory consequence to the intervention.”

There are numerous flaws in this analysis.  The procedure was an abortion with the direct intention of killing the child.   The child in utero was not dying and saying 'more likely' that it was is 100% conjecture.  But the most compelling observance of their moral poverty was their description of the 'death of the fetus as an accessory consequence to the intervention".

When dilating the woman's cervix, inserting the vacuum to the living child within her womb and tearing the child into small enough pieces to go through the tubes and into the jar, they approached the procedure with the intention of permitting the child to live.  In the course of this medical intervention, the dead child was an unintended accessory consequence and therefore, it is 'bogus' (as Korzen calls it) to describe the procedure as an abortion.

The hospital has the support of the Catholic Health Association, the U.S. Catholic community foremost healthcare authority, Catholics United says. Gotta love that.    (They also have the support of the reliable contradictors of Catholic teaching .  The crew at the National Catholic Reporter.   James Martin conveniently gathers the links of the people adrift from One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church at Condomweal here.  Vox Nova here.)


Taking a quick glimpse at other press releases at "Catholics United", it's quite a peculiar focus for a Catholic group.  In fact, I couldn't find anything that actually defended Catholic teaching.  When they "unite", they "unite" behind people people who procure and legislate abortion or pour ants over the Catholic Crucifix to blame Catholic teaching for the HIV caused by irresponsible sex.

I doubt they were edified with Bishop Olmsted's response --

The Phoenix Diocese issued the following statement: "Unfortunately, St. Joseph's hospital and 'Catholic's United are not in union with Bishop Olmsted and have no claim to being considered authentically Catholic, nor do they speak for the church in any way."

Why don't they just use the take away the right of "Catholics United", the "National Catholic Reporter" and the "Catholic Health Association" to use the name "Catholic" to set up an alternate 'magisterium'?  

Take the ax to the root.

Bryan Hehir on Sister Carol Keehan

Please Circulate to your email lists.

Obama's Proabortion Puppet Priest Bryan Hehir at the Catholic Health Association Conference

A new post up on BryanHehirExposed has a very disturbing audio clip of Cardinal O'Malley's highest-ranking cabinet member stumping for the Obama proaborts led by Sister Carol Keehan.

I'm not even going to post any hints about what he said about baby killing millionaire "nun" Carol Keehan.   Go listen and for yourselves.

Here is a good piece of hooey from Cardinal O'Malley's Einstein in another part of his screed whoring himself for the proaborts and the culture of death:

Father Hehir quoted the late Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray in distinguishing between mistakes and errors. Father Murray said mistakes are “deficiencies of intelligence,” while errors are based on a “deficiency of good will…His point was not to assume mistakes are errors. His conclusion was that the Christian community is not in error, no matter how many mistakes are made.”

This man is a vulture.   It would would be better for him and his enablers if he were a pedophile.  

How he's gotten away with the complete destruction of the Roman Catholic religion in America is a testimony to the corruption inside of the Catholic Church. 

Father Hehir, said the debate was complicated by “a disturbing characteristic of the American political process — polarization that is both intellectual and political.”

You want to see polarizing pal, stick around.  Sean O'Malley may build you safety nets with help from the few "friends" he has left at the Vatican but in many ways, you've only just begun to see the whites of the eyes of Boston Catholics.

Speaking of which, when I came home tonight from a long day of work, there was a flurry of emails from Boston Catholics with links to a new Boston blog:

Boston Catholic Insider


Welcome to the Boston Catholic blogging network!

The Blame Game

The audacity of Bishop Zavala to say the USCCB is troubled by faithful Catholics who have taken to exposing their dissent, corruption and ineptitude was the subject of Michael Voris's Vortex yesterday.



Meanwhile, remember how Cardinal George criticized millionaire Sr. Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association for setting up a parallel Magisterium?

Today,Secreaty of Communications for the Bishop's Conference, Ms. Helen Osman, gave Cardinal George a can of whoopass, saying Cardinal George never said any such thing, she has an audio proving it but of course will not release it.

At the time of this blog entry, Cardinal George had not stepped up to the plate.

Thread at Fr. Z's.

Any more questions about why bloggers have taken the feather to what's left of the USCCB spines and push them aside to start a conduit for the new evangelism?

As a commenter points out on Fr. Z's blog, Cardinal George is the same guy who awarded Fr. Pfleger with a lifetime achievement award.

Mr. Jeckyll, meet Mr. Hyde.

Carol Keehan is the love child of the counterfeit church the USCCB has been erecting for 40 years. With every act of wimpiness, cowardice, lies, corruption and cover up, the division gets wider and our resolve gets stronger.


There are two armies now gathering within the Catholic Church - today's Vortex:

Bishop Tobin Pulls Catholic Hospital out of Catholic Health Association

There is always something to celebrate.

Bishop Robert Lynch Still Leading Souls to their Perdition

If your dinner is digested and your soul adequately fortified with grace, drop in to read Thoughts and Reflections by Bishop Robert Lynch which he calls "For His Friends"

He's on the defensive for "the good woman of the church", Sister Carol Keehan. Lynch is on the Board of Directors for the Catholic Health Association.

After his deceptive twists about Keehan and healthcare in the post, he says:

Passions run high in this matter, sometimes at the expense of rational analysis. I will try and keep myself informed of the developments throughout this week and continue to share my thoughts with you here. Now it is off on AMTRAK again, this time to Miami, for a visit with our twenty college seminarians and a funeral in Lake Worth tomorrow.

How do you like this tripe?

Sure is a good kick to the gut isn't it?

Don't worry kiddies, he's going to keep himself informed so he can keep us all "rational".

You know, he's getting a little long in the tooth for this stuff. Death may come like a thief in the night with no time to repent.


I put a comment on the site which of course is "moderated". Think it will make it through?


Carol McKinley Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
March 17th, 2010 at 7:06 pm

Abortions are indeed funded with taxpayer money in this bill - as Kathleen Sebelius confirms:


"Yet, when she spoke with ABC's "This Week" program yesterday, she said "Yes, abortion services are provided" under the Senate health care bill.

She tried to qualify her answer by adding, "people will pay out of their own pockets, in both the Senate and the House, but they do it in slightly different ways."

http://www.lifenews.com/nat6083.html

Then again, with your history of misleading your flock, there is very little room to believe you don't know this.

God sees what you have done to His people and His Church.

You are fooling nobody in a state of Grace. God help those whose consciences were dulled with your Tom Foolery all these years and are now left to follow you on the road to perdition.

Obama's phony plant in the Catholic Church, Carol Keehan & the Catholic Health Association

With Marxism hanging in the balance,Pelosi and Obama have wound up their phony plant in the Catholic Church, the "Catholic Health Association" to "support the health care bill".

Major anti-abortion groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to Life Committee, are adamantly opposed to the legislation, preferring stricter restrictions passed last November by the House.

Keehan said in an interview that she believes the approach now in the bill would work just as well to keep federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion.

"On the moral issue of abortion, there is no disagreement," Keehan said. "On the technical issue of whether this bill prevents federal funding of abortions, we differ with Right to Life."

The current legislation would allow private insurance plans operating in a new insurance marketplace to cover abortions, provided they do not use taxpayer funds. What makes that tricky is that many of the plans' customers would be receiving federal subsidies to help pay their premiums. So the legislation requires plans offering abortion coverage to collect a separate premium from their policyholders. Those separate checks would have to be kept in a different account from money for other health care services.

Another consequence of the misfeasance of Catholic Bishops to Canonically protect the name "Catholic" so that the faithful can be free of misrepresentations that mislead souls away from salvation.

Carol Keehan and the Catholic Health Association Funding Abortion Pols

Sister Carol and CHA Abortion Money Trail

The long list is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sister Carol Keehan: Every Christmas Story Has a King Herod

As the USCCB was lobbying to stop the passage of the life-threatening socialized medicine Bill on Christmas Eve, saying it “violates the longstanding federal policy against the use of federal funds for elective abortions and health plans that include such abortions—a policy upheld in all health programs covered by the Hyde Amendment as well as in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program—and now in the House-passed ‘Affordable Health Care for America Act,’” -- Sister Carol Keehan and the initiative she set up to to whore for the abortion industry in healthcare, (under the auspices it is Catholic) were executing the orders for slaughtering of the innocents.

Catholic scholars say their statement reflects a different application of church teachings against “cooperation with evil,” a calculus that the legislation offers a way to extend health insurance to millions of Americans. For the Catholic hospitals, that it is both a moral and financial imperative, since like other hospitals they stand to gain from reducing the number of uninsured patients....

“We have known for quite some time that the Catholic hospitals and also the nuns are really breaking from these hard-line bishops and saying, ‘This really is our goal: to get more people into health care coverage,’ ” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado.

National healthcare that will withhold treatment to seriously sick and old and our country's poorest of the poor. Yes, we must watch out for those nuns. If you're ever terminally ill or spending your last days on earth getting palliative care in a full hospital and you see them coming with a needle to open up your bed for tomorrows tonsillectomy, know they have the goals of getting more people into healthcare coverage - bless their hearts.

The most offensive part of these developments is only known to prolifers on the frontlines of the trenches in the defense of life: The formula for "cooperation with evil" is the brainchild of Cardinal O'Malley, Cardinal McCormick, and others, who were possibly given their lethal licenses from the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Though, Cardinal O'Malley and his corrupt henchmen at the Boston Chancery refused to release the NCBC report, O'Malley's publicity stunt in the public square made it appear as if the NCBC gave him the green light to create an entity to hire abortionists and drive women to them and enter into the lucrative contracts at just the right arms length.

And in practical political terms, some Democrats — including some opponents of abortion rights — say that the Catholic hospitals’ relative openness to a compromise could play a pivotal role by providing political cover for Democrats who oppose abortion to support the health bill. Democrats and liberal groups quickly disseminated the association’s endorsement along with others from the nuns’ group, other Catholics and evangelicals.

In February, the Vatican launched an Apostolic Visitation to find the religious impostors among US Catholic Religious.

There's a game played at the Vatican that reminds me of the scene from Casablanca when Rick Blaine shoots and kills Major Strausser so Victor Laszlo and Ilsa can board the get-away plane. Captain Renault, knowing full well "who done it" sends his troops out on a wild goose chase to "round up the usual suspects".

With millions of lives at risk for being cruelly terminated prematurely, they had two years of watching Sister Carol Keehan lobbying in the public square to create a perfect race for Obama, the socialists and abortion industry right on television, the newspapers and the internet and several of us sent the papertrails to Rome.

To permit Sr. Carol Keehnan to erect this concentration camp in the public square under the name Catholic while the Vatican is pretending they're looking under beds for religious impostors who threaten Catholicism and life itself, is a monument to their lack of sincerity.

The third and fourth Bishops in Ireland have resigned this week - and the fifth is trying to hold onto his See and his reputation in the wake of the horrific coverups. Aiding and abetting rapists and murderers is a compromise that's unacceptable.

Indignation when people get caught with the long papertrails of coverups, dog and pony shows about how they've turned a new leaf, they're proactively looking for the usual suspects -- it is getting old and tired.

Sr. Carol Keehan is a menace to the lives of children, the sick and the poor. She's actively participating in turning the country over to the death panels. She's as treacherous to the lives of children as Mengale in the Second World War.

What price will we all pay for the Vatican's coddling of treacherous people wearing their costumes of habits and collars?

In the meantime, the children of people who trust the Bishops of Massachusetts and New Hampshire are as safe as the taxicabs leaving Caritas Hospitals heading for the abortionists O'Malley hired - and the National Catholic Bioethics Center "blessed".

God help us all.

Catholic Health Association Withdraws Obamacare Support

Sr. Carol Keehan, who has up until this point in time been an advocate of Catholic Hospital abortion contracts and Obamacare seems to be whistling another tune.

The CHA says it can't endorse either the House or Senate bills because they do not specifically exclude abortions.

The head of the CHA says in a statement LifeNews.com received that her group would like to support health care "reform" but says legislation can't be supported if it expands abortions.

"Our message has always been clear," says Sister Carol Keehan, president of the group. "Health care must respect and protect human dignity from conception to natural death. In that spirit, coverage for everyone is a moral imperative and a matter of social justice."

Her message has always been clear.

Earlier, it appeared CHA joined the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Charities USA in backing the legislation despite the abortion concerns.

The three groups sent out an action alert asking members to contact their legislators immediately.

"Please call and e-mail your Representative in the next 24 hours expressing your support for Congress to enact health care reform now," the groups said in a joint action alert at the end of July.

"Saint Vincent de Paul is partnering with Catholic Charities USA and the Catholic Health Association to amplify our collective voice to let Congress know that health care reform can not wait," the alert said.

As clear as mud.

My Conversation with Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association

I asked Sr. Carol Keehan point blank questions which she refused to answer.

Essentially, she said she herself would never do any of the things required of the contract and if I thought she would, I obviously have no respect for her. She said everybody knows abortion is an option.

Yes, Sister. Everybody knows. Everybody knows drinking is an option too. But people with sound judgment don't send the alcoholic with a case of Dewers to the AA meeting.


Our exchange is below.

Sr. Carol seems like woman who would appalled if she knew the details of this arrangement. It's clear to me she doesn't.

The people who will be miles away from what's happening are simply not thinking this through.

They think they are setting up a system that can hoodwink the insurance company and use the opportunity to talk women out of the abortions. That you can do in a Catholic hospital.

What they're doing now is taking that environment away and replacing it with a system that is going to force Catholic healthcare workers to CEASE AND DESIST from talking women out of abortions. They are replacing it with a system that is forcing Catholic workers to talk about abortion in a positive light and hand the women the phone number. And, they're promising that monitors will be watching.

They've made the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston a man who has set up a partnership to hire people to kill other people. They've told him it's ok to do it.

They've told the Catholics at Caritas its ok to do it. But when you ask them if they'd ever do it themselves, they tell you they're prolife and would never get involved in any aspect of killing anybody else. We have no respect for them if we would think such a thing about them.


It's too crazy to be of human origin. It's the devil, hiding truth, clouding judgment, taking advantage of naive people.

Also worthy of reading is Leila Lawlor's below post on this menacing debacle. The Cardinal's game playing has left her with doubts about the National Catholic Bioethics Center. I personally have never heard anything that came out of Father Tad's mouth that wasn't wholly consistent with the teachings of the Church in any matter and I cannot imagine him compromising truth. I do share Leila's sentiments about the foolishness of having to ask somebody whether Catholics can hire somebody to kill people and then point people in their direction.

It's giving the appearance of a disingenuous game. The Cardinal's statement that he "in order to assure" him, he hired the NCBC to review the agreement and "assure him" wasn't exactly helpful.

In order to assure me that this agreement will provide for the integrity of the Catholic identity and practices of Caritas Christi Health Care System, I have asked the National Catholic Bioethics Center to review the agreement and to assure me that it is faithful to Catholic principles."

Seems to many people that the Cardinal, who sits on the Board and helps fund the National Catholic Bioethics Center, has already given them the conclusion of their opinion.

The fight has not been kept far from the walls. The fight is inside the house.

I completely agree that the the culture of death has infested the walls within.

Sister Carol's exchange below (read from bottom up):


-----Original Message-----
From: cmmckinley@aol.com
To: srcarolk@chausa.org


That is an unfair response Sister.

You have made an assertion that will affect thousands of Catholics and I'm asking you to doctrinally confirm your assertions.

It's one thing to be in a Catholic institution and speak to women who approach you in that context and it's another to direct a flow of hundreds of thousands of Catholics who are covered for abortion services and intend to get them - and compel our Catholic physicians to do what you would never do yourself.

You have told the public that it is ok for the Cardinal to hire somebody to kill people and it is ok for Catholics to pass out those phone numbers.

Answer the questions, please.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sr. Carol Keehan <srcarolk@chausa.org>
To: cmmckinley@aol.com <cmmckinley@aol.com>

I am saddened by your response. I would never ask you if you had ever hired someone to kill another. As much as I want to work with you it does not seem possible, I have saved the lives of thousands of babies and never ever done anything to hurt much less kill anyone. You obviously have no respect for me if that is your response. Let’s pray for each other but no longer communicate.

-----Original Message-----
From: cmmckinley@aol.com
To: srcarolk@chausa.org


Sister,

You didn't answer the questions.

Would you kindly answer them?

Can a Cardinal Archbishop hire somebody to kill somebody else?

Can Catholics then give them that phone number?

Have you ever done it.

That's what I want to know from you.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sr. Carol Keehan <srcarolk@chausa.org>
To: cmmckinley@aol.com <cmmckinley@aol.com>

I am convinced few have complete information and I am concerned at the tone of so many comments about permission to kill etc. We are Church and we should talk these issues out with respect. What you are quoting is not what my understanding of the statement has to be. Also in todayE2s world, how many people do you think don’t know abortion is an option?

In my forty years in health care much of it in perinatology and neonatology, many women start out saying I can’t have this baby, I can’t afford it or I am too ashamed and because we are there for them in a loving and supportive way, we get a real chance to prevent the abortion. So many have been prevented because of this.

In any “service” that a provider does not provide, the person is sent back to the insurance company to have them deal with it. Often but not in this case the insurance company will tell the person that it is not covered or if it is what providers they can choose from.

No one likes to hear that someone is going to get an abortion, but if we stay in the business of Ob, we get a real opportunity to help women deal with this challenging time and often are able to save the baby. I am sure for our crisis pregnancy lines, it is an agony that never gets better to talk with someone who ultimately makes the decision to abort but if we don’t keep our call line open we can’t prevent so many of them.

My sense of this arrangement is not the same as yours but I do have faith in the integrity of the Archbishop. There is a difference is saying we don’t do that and hopefully they will ask why, and sending them back to their insurance company office. It is such a painful reality and our work together is the best way to be sure we have every opportunity for women to make another choice. Our example of providing services etc as well as a welcoming Church will do so much to change individual and public opinion which strengthens our pro life position. Sometimes it can be like walking a tightrope in order to have the opportunity to encourage life choices in pregnant women.

We may not see this the same exact way or even have the same information but I hope we can respect the goodwill we both have and the commitment both of us have to pro life. Thank you and God bless you . Sr Carol

From: cmmckinley@aol.com [mailto:cmmckinley@aol.com]

To: Sr. Carol Keehan
Subject: Re: question

Sister,

I'm not convinced you had complete information when you made your statements in the Boston Globe regarding the Caritas situation and I'd like to clarify your doctrinal assertions. We have thousands of Catholics who have expressed that this arragement will force them to quit their job.

Both Caritas and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has confirmed that Catholic employees at Caritas will be compelled to respond to a woman who is di straught about her pregnancy and wishes to terminate it by saying "Abortion is an option for you". Caritas has given written guarantees in writing that they will force Catholic employees to provide abortion information in a positive light and give them further instructions on how to obtain that abortion. The Commonwealth is now working out the details of how to monitor conversations of Catholic employees at Caritas to ensure they are complying with these orders. (please see citation from the Boston Globe below.)

Many of us are confused by your statements.

Can Catholics respond to people asking you to kill somebody by saying "I can't do that but here's the phone number of somebody who willl connect you to the right person?"


Have you ever responded to a distraught women who sought information about obtaining an abortion by giving her the phone numbers to get it or arranging for her ride?


Is it consistent with Catholic ethics for a priest to respond to a woman seeking information about aborti on by explaining the procedure and giving her the phone number to obtain it?

Is it completely consistent with Catholic ethics to respond to a distraught pregnant women by telling her abortion is an option for her and refer her to the phone number of people Cardinal O'Malley has subcontracted to kill the unborn child?



Is it morally ethical for a Cardinal Archbishop to create a partnership that is a subcontract knowing tha t the people employed by that contract are people that will assist and carry out a murder?



Thanks for the clarfications and answers to the questions. See below for the article and links.







http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/13/mass_regulators_ok_joint_caritas_centene_healthcare_venture/

The Connector Authority board, which oversees the Commonwealth Care program, voted unanimously in favor of the joint venture proposed by Centene Corp., a St. Louis-based health organization, and Caritas Christi Health Care Network.

The vote followed several closed-door sessions in which officials from Centene and Caritas, the minority partner in the joint venture, assured regulators that women will have "rea dy access" to family planning and reproductive services, an issue that sparked concerns from abortion foes and reproductive rights activists.

Among the written assurances are a pledge that medical staff operating under the Centene-Caritas insurance plan, known as Commonwealth Family Health Plan, will inform women of their healthcare options, including abortion.

From the National Catholic Register:

If Caritas-Centene proceeds with its plan, state regulators and abortion advocates will be watching. “How compliance will be monitored is just being worked out now,” Massachusetts health authority spokesman Powers said March 16.

Andrea Miller, executive director of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice Massachusetts, said her abortion advocacy group “vows to monitor” the Catholic hospitals to ensure that people have access to services to “protect them from pregnancy and disease …” In the past, NARAL operatives have made covert calls to hospitals, including Catholic ones, to see if personnel complied with a law to offer the abortifacient “morning after” pill.

Carol McKinley

Boston's Forced Aborting

The National Catholic Register has picked up the story of Boston Catholic employees of Caritas Christi who will soon be forced into describing abortions and other unethical procedures to stream of women seeking them and covered for them under the insurance plan Cardinal O'Malley has guaranteed is consistent with Catholic moral ethics.

According to Dick Powers, spokesman for the Massachusetts Health Connector Authority Board, which awards the contracts for state-subsidized insurance for low-income residents, the board unanimously accepted the Caritas-Centene bid after regulators received written assurances that medical staff will inform people of all options, including abortion.

I hate to say what is painfully obvious to people who care about the salvation of everyone: What on earth would possess a Catholic Cardinal to believe it is morally ethical for his Catholic heathcare workers at Caritas to give out the number of the employees of "Centene" to bait them into formal cooperation with abortion?

Also, some faithful prolifers have suggested that Cardinal O'Malley was shocked and caught off guard by the Caritas Christi abortion referral contract.

Unfortunately, that just does not comport with the facts.

On March 4th, the Boston Globe published a story that quoted Caritas saying they will provide family planning services, including abortion "IN and out of the Caritas network".

Later that day, Caritas and Centene Corp. released a one-sentence statement that said the venture "will contract with providers, both in and out of the Caritas network, to ensure access to all services required by the authority, including confidential family planning services."

The Archdiocese of Boston has not yet commented, and the explanations from the health care providers have not clarified how exactly this venture would mesh with Catholic teaching. (UPDATE: Connector Authority spokesman Dick Powers, asked about the issue by the Globe, today said "Health plans must provide covered services. Covered services specifically include abortion services.")

The Cardinal furiously got to work emailing Boston priests, deacons and lay Catholics claiming that no women would be referred out of Caritas Christi for abortion services and on March 6th, the Cardinal put up a post on his blog that said:

To be perfectly clear, Caritas Christi will never do anything to promote abortions, to direct any patients to providers of abortion or in any way to participate in actions that are contrary to Catholic moral teaching and anyone who suggests otherwise is doing a great disservice to the Catholic Church.

These are simply not the actions of somebody who is caught off guard and went on a pursuit of truth. The facts had already been published in the Boston Globe.

Furthermore, on March 13th, the Globe published that Caritas had promised the Commonwealth in writing that the medical staff of Caritas would "inform women of their healthcare options, including abortion".

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/13/mass_regulators_ok_joint_caritas_centene_healthcare_venture/

The Connector Authority board, which oversees the Commonwealth Care program, voted unanimously in favor of the joint venture proposed by Centene Corp., a St. Louis-based health organization, and Caritas Christi Health Care Network.

The vote followed several closed-door sessions in which officials from Centene and Caritas, the minority partner in the joint venture, assured regulators that women will have "ready access" to family planning and reproductive services, an issue that sparked concerns from abortion foes and reproductive rights activists.

Among the written assurances are a pledge that medical staff operating under the Centene-Caritas insurance plan, known as Commonwealth Family Health Plan, will inform women of their healthcare options, including abortion.

Thereby ending the controversy about whether Caritas employees will be forced to inform women seeking abortions about abortions.

The Cardinal has not retracted his erroneous statements. The Cardinal is still posturing that people saying Caritas employees will be forced to talk about abortions in positive ways and send the women on her way with good wishes are "people doing a disservice to the Church".

Since we know he wasn't ignorant of the facts, the only other plausible explanation is that the Cardinal believes that if somebody approaches a Catholic expressing they want to kill somebody - we can't do ourselves but we can pass out information and instructions to somebody who can and will.

Prince of the Church or not, it is the duty of anyone baptized to inform the public of of the distortions coming out of the Boston Chancery, including the Cardinal's own blog.

The National Catholic Register story has dug up the political contribustions of Caritas CEO and Chairman of the Caritas Board of Governors. Not surprisingly, both officials support proabortion politicians.

Caritas spokeswoman Teresa Prego declined comment to Register questions, as did President Ralph de la Torre and James Karam, chairman of the board of governors. According to Federal Election Commission records, both officials have given generously to politicians who support abortion: Last year, de la Torre gave $2,300 to Barack Obama; from 2007-08, Karam gave $6,900 to Hillary Clinton for president and $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry.

Highly placed Catholics have made inquiries to clarify the Cardinals statement and the statements of Caritas and the Commonwealth which could not possibly co-exist and, the Cardinal, the diocese and Caritas has refused to answer those questions. Reporters have also asked questions and received no reply.

They've got something to hide. This is not how people act when they've been blindsided. This is not the conduct of people acting in good faith, including Cardinal O'Malley, whose credibility has been severely damaged.

The Register's reporter Gail Besse also found out that state regulators are finalizing the details of how Catholic employees will be "monitored"

If Caritas-Centene proceeds with its plan, state regulators and abortion advocates will be watching. “How compliance will be monitored is just being worked out now,” Massachusetts health authority spokesman Powers said March 16.

Andrea Miller, executive director of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice Massachusetts, said her abortion advocacy group “vows to monitor” the Catholic hospitals to ensure that people have access to services to “protect them from pregnancy and disease …” In the past, NARAL operatives have made covert calls to hospitals, including Catholic ones, to see if personnel complied with a law to offer the abortifacient “morning after” pill.

We know that Cardinal O'Malley is already forcing Catholic employees to give out the morning after pill.

More confusing statements from Sister Carol Keehan, Catholic Health Association president.

The president of the Catholic Health Association, Sister Carol Keehan, has issued a response to the pro-life advocates who are upset with her statement praising two pro-abortion picks by incoming president Barack Obama.

She says nothing of whether a promotion of unlimited abortions performed at taxpayer expense degrades the competency of Obama's selections.

Keehan also claims that Obama and his selections will provide better health care for pregnant women and unborn children.

"They are committed to getting access to quality health care for all Americans, including pregnant women and their unborn babies," Keehan adds. "It is my belief that we ... will prevent more abortions by ensuring tangible health care for pregnant women and their unborn babies."

This is a great quote from a great prolife leader here in Boston:

William Cotter, head of Boston’s Operation Rescue, believes the archdiocese was taken off guard by the Caritas move. “But,” he said, “there’s been a terrible loss of credibility for the archdiocese. It must forego the potential financial gain and refuse this pact with the devil.”