Helping Archbishop Timothy Dolan Organize His Busy Schedule

In this week’s Time magazine New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan argues against the Affordable Care Act‘s requirement that Catholic affiliated institutions must offer contraception coverage. “When did the government get into the business of defining…the extent of our ministry?”

what eye thynk: The obvious answer is another question -- "When did the church, (any church, not just the Catholic church), get into the business of defining the extent of our government?".

Let me point out an example of Catholic institution hypocrisy. Xavier University, an elite Jesuit run school in Cincinnati Ohio, currently provides birth control coverage for all its employees, be they Catholic or non-Catholic. They have done so ever since they started providing a health plan; however, beginning in July, they will be eliminating birth control from their coverage. So apparently, it was okay before, but now that the ACA requires it, it is suddenly anathema?

It should be noted that the ACA requirement to provide birth control options does not actually compel anyone to use them. The choice is up to the individual according to their own personal beliefs.  No one is going to hold down your Catholic employees and force feed them birth control bills.  On the flip side, you should not be denying your non-Catholic employees access to  a perfectly legal medication.

So, Archbishop Dolan, let me suggest that you drop your birth control fight.  Just think of all time you can clear on your calendar, time you can use to do more about eliminating pedophiles from your priesthood--pedophilia being, by the way, equally illegal for non-Catholics and Catholics alike.