Catholic Hospital Targeted

Biden administration targets a Catholic hospital for daring to question its authority - Washington Examiner Not content to harass just Catholic nuns , the successor administration to the Obama White House has taken up harassing Catholic hospitals. In April, Saint Francis Hospital South, which is one of five hospitals in the Saint Francis Health System network in eastern Oklahoma, received an ultimatum from the Biden administration: Extinguish your chapel’s sanctuary lamp, or we will strip you of your ability to accept Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program. For context, a sanctuary lamp is a “wax candle, generally in a red glass container, kept burning day and night wherever the Blessed Sacrament is reserved in Catholic churches or chapels,” according to the Modern Catholic Dictionary. “It is an emblem of Christ's abiding love and a reminder to the faithful to respond with loving adoration in return.” Saint Francis eventually enlisted the aid of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, whose attorneys argued the ultimatum violated the hospital’s First Amendment freedoms. - Lord, we pray that the Biden administration will cease from targeting religion. We ask for a move of repentance across the government until everyone has been changed in their heart. - “God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change—He will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.” (Psalm 55: 19)