England may ban the display of the cross in the workplace stating it is not a requirement of the Christian faith. This may be a true statement but why would a cross or crucifix offend anyone? What is so offensive about a belief in a Christian God? Or is it fear? We can dismiss this story since it does not impact the United States or is the United States actually impacting the rest of the Christian world?

Did anyone ever believe that the White House would dictate religious doctrine to a group of Catholic bishops?

At a recent meeting between staff of the bishops’ conference and the White House staff, our staff members asked directly whether the broader concerns of religious freedom—that is, revisiting the straight-jacketing mandates, or broadening the maligned exemption—are all off the table. They were informed that they are.  So much for “working out the wrinkles.”  Instead, they advised the bishops’ conference that we should listen to the “enlightened” voices of accommodation, such as the recent, hardly surprising yet terribly unfortunate editorial in America.  The White House seems to think we bishops simply do not know or understand Catholic teaching and so, taking a cue from its own definition of religious freedom, now has nominated its own handpicked official Catholic teachers.

Did anyone ever believe that the president of the United States would make a personal phone call to a woman and state that her parents should be proud of her immorality? But  the Obama administration’s hostility against Christianity has been outlined in detail by David Barton starting in April 2008.

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