{"id":26839,"date":"2012-01-30T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-ma\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:45:27","slug":"the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jesus mandate vs. Obama&#8217;s mandate &#8211;the challenge of religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><i>William Edward Lori&#8217;s essay, &#8220;<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-mandate\/2012\/01\/27\/gIQAJ5jpVQ_blog.html\" style=\"font-style: italic; \">The Jesus mandate vs. Obama&#8217;s mandate<\/a><i>&#8221; was published this afternoon in <\/i>The Washington Post<i>. Lori is the 4th bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport and the chairman of the US Bishops&#8217; <\/i>Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty<i>.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><i>Two paragraphs of Bishop Lori&#8217;s essay follow, but the full text is noted here:<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Last year alone, Catholic Charities served more than<br \/>\n10 million of the poor, the needy, and the suffering throughout our nation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Catholic Charities doesn&#8217;t know how many of those served were not<br \/>\nCatholic, because they simply never ask. Our faith compels us to serve, not the<br \/>\nfaith of those we help.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Catholic ministries for the needy are as blind to race,<br \/>\ncreed, class, and gender as Jesus Christ, their founder. That any one of them,<br \/>\nmuch less all of them, should be forced to choose between the Gospel mandate<br \/>\nand the U.S. government&#8217;s health care mandate strikes at the very heart of the<br \/>\nright to religious liberty on which our country was founded.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Edward Lori&#8217;s essay, &#8220;The Jesus mandate vs. Obama&#8217;s mandate&#8221; was published this afternoon in The Washington Post. Lori is the 4th bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport and the chairman of the US Bishops&#8217; Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. Two paragraphs of Bishop Lori&#8217;s essay follow, but the full text is noted here: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-ma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Jesus mandate vs. Obama&#8217;s mandate &#8211;the challenge of religious freedom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1864,1769,2574,2367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}