Cliff Kincaid's Vaticans Push For Socialist Healthcare Article Breaks Mainstream Gatekeeprs

CLIFF KINCAID BREAKS THROUGH GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GATEKEEPERS

VATICAN ENGINEERED VICTORY FOR PELOSICARE

By Cliff Kincaid
November 10, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

In a story about why the U.S. Catholic Bishops have embraced Democratic-style universal health care, the Los Angeles Times noted that the Roman Catholic Church considers healthcare a basic human right, “a position the church has articulated since 1963, when it was included in a papal encyclical by Pope John XXIII.” Indeed, healthcare is declared a right in the “Peace on Earth” encyclical. That is also the basis of Obamacare.

The group Catholic Democrats has hailed passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2009, and notes that the only House Republican voting for it, Representative Joseph Cao of Louisiana, is a Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian. “The Catholic Church has been at the forefront of advocating for health care as a right for decades, including pastoral letters issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 1981 and 1993,” the group notes.

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Cliff Kincaid's article breaks mainstream gatekeeprs

AP

- November 11, 2009

Catholic Bishops Sway Health Care Fight

They don't spend a dime on what is legally defined as lobbying, but lawmakers and insiders recognize that bishops' voices matter — and they move votes.

WASHINGTON - Catholic bishops have emerged as a formidable force in the health care overhaul fight, using their clout with millions of Catholics and working behind the scenes in Congress to get strong abortion restrictions into the House bill.

They don't spend a dime on what is legally defined as lobbying, but lawmakers and insiders recognize that the bishops' voices matter — and they move votes. Representatives for the bishops were in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol suite negotiating with top officials last Friday evening as they reached final terms of the agreement. Earlier in the day, Pelosi, a Catholic and an abortion rights supporter, had been on the phone to Rome with Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Washington's former archbishop, on the subject.

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