DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL!: Catholic archdiocese accuses Walter Reed of stifling religious rights with ‘cease and desist’ order
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DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL!: Catholic archdiocese accuses Walter Reed of stifling religious rights with ‘cease and desist’ order
The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services is accusing Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of denying Catholic service members and veterans their right to practice their religion
The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services is accusing Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of denying Catholic service members and veterans their right to practice their religion after it canceled a contract for pastoral care and issued a “cease and desist” order to a community of Catholic priests just days before Holy Week.
The Catholic archdiocese says in a statement that Walter Reed issued the order against Holy Name College Friary, a Franciscan community of priests and brothers that has served at the center for nearly 20 years.
Instead, it says the contract for Catholic Pastoral Care was terminated at the end of March, just as Holy Week was about to begin.
Walter Reed replaced the contract with a secular defense contracting firm that the archdiocese says will not be able to provide the adequate care needed.
The archdiocese condemned the move as an encroachment upon the right of free exercise of religion under the First Amendment and said its requests to have the ministry reinstated through Easter have not received a response.