Cardinal Timothy Dolan faulted President Obama for making “a radical intrusion” into church life with “strangling HHS regulations” such as the contraception mandate.
“The President told me . . . his conviction is that the government would do nothing to impede religion,” Dolan said during an Easter Sunday appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation. “It’s tough for me to see how the strangling HHS Regulations do anything but that.”
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Dolan described the contraception mandate as “a dramatic, radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy into the internal life of the church . . . the life of faith.” He explained that President Obama’s so-called “accomodation” doesn’t protect churches from paying for contraception because they are largely self-insured, and so their insurance policies will fund the product.
“We still find ourselves in a very tough spot, and we’re still going to continue to express what we believe is just not a religious point of view but a constitutional point of view that America’s at her best when the government doesn’t force a citizen or a group of citizens in a religious creed to violate their deepest held moral convictions,” he said.
