SECRET MEETING: POPE FRANCIS BOLSTERS OBAMA CONTRACEPTION MANDATE VICTIMS

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Breitbart:

Pope Francis had an unscheduled meeting with the Little Sisters of the Poor, a community of nuns who have been engaged in a major legal battle against the Obama administration’s HHS contraception mandate.

 

Father Federico Lombardi tells reporters that the Pope met with the religious sisters as “a sign of support” for them in their lawsuit against the Obama administration.

 

As Breitbart News reported in July, a federal appeals court ruled that the Little Sisters, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, must comply with the HHS mandate that requires their health insurance carriers to subsidize contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization procedures for their employees. Failure to do so means the nuns would incur significant fines from the IRS.

 

Last week, however, another federal court ruled that the government cannot impose such onerous fines on religious groups for following the tenets of their faith. The ruling makes it more likely that the Supreme Court will take up such cases against the Obama administration.

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Good for him. Too bad Obama feels otherwise.