Fighting for our Religious Liberty and action we can take to help defend it

We are called to live our faith in our daily lives, at work, at play, and in the community, but our federal government is trying to put limitations on practicing our Catholic faith.   The federal HHS mandate is forcing Catholic institutions to pay for services that are against our morals such as contraception and abortion inducing drugs.  Catholics are not the only folks affected in this fight.  There are private businesses such as Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College that are fighting against this infringement on freely practicing religion.   If we are going to change the culture that is anti-life and anti-family we need to be able to freely practice our faith in all areas of life.    If we lose our freedom of religion that has been fought for and won by our founding fathers then we will not be able to defend life at all stages, marriage, immigration, and the impoverished.   To help understand what the issues are and what to do about it I’ve provided a few resources that can help.

The Catholic Café has a good weekly podcast that covered threats to our Religious Liberty on May 24^th: The Fight for ReligiousLiberty.  The Catholic Café is a weekly radio program by Deacon Jeff Drzycimski and co-host Tom Dorian heard on Relevant Radio.   If you are in Indianapolis area you’ll need to listen to the podcast on the web or you can download to your phone.  Every week there is a good topic on the Catholic Faith. Past programs include Catholic Parenting, Dressed for Success, and Examination of Conscience, plus many more.  The topics covered are relevant, entertaining, and truly Catholic.  Try one out!  You’ll enjoy it.

If you’re concerned about the threat to religious liberty you can do something about it.  First of all pray!   You can join in with US Bishops Fortnight for Freedom, June 21 to July 4 for a period of prayer and action.  You can also sign up for texts messages to inform you of issues and provide ways to take action at the federal government level.  

 

You can also keep up to date on issues at the state level as well through the Indiana Catholic Conference.  This site provides email alerts through the Legislative Action Center for issues that are important at both the state and federal government levels and links to a site that makes it very easy to contact your representatives with a pre-formatted email that gives you the ability to add your own verbiage if desired. 

Pray that our elected officials will fight for our Religious Liberty. May God bless you!