HHS Mandate and Employment Law

I was reading a completely not related article on sexual harassment in the workplace and was suddenly struck by a thought...

The President has crafted an exemption to the HHS mandate that allows institutions that involves criteria of serving or employing people of a single faith.  Does this mean that if an employer has exempted their health insurance coverage, or in an effort to exempt their coverage, they will be permitted to ask about the religion of potential employees and base their hiring on the religious beliefs of the applicant?

I'm certainly not in favor of that.  However, the contrary of saying you can only be exempt if you discriminate but you are not permitted to discriminate so you must violate your religious beliefs is even more intolerable.

Why don't Catholics flock to the Eucharist, smiling and happy?

If you're Catholic, you're surely quite familiar with our deeply held beliefs regarding the Eucharist.  That it IS the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. It's not a symbol.  It's not just bread and wine.  It is the Real Presence of Our Lord and Our God.  Receiving Communion is touching the Son of God and incorporating our flesh and His.

And odds are, if you are a Catholic, you have heard a priest talk about how excited and happy we should be when we step forward to receive the Eucharist.

Talking Sola Fide...

I was engaged in a conversation with a fellow that believes in Sola Fide, salvation by faith alone.  He is certain that, as a Catholic, I am in very dire risk of eternal damnation because I believe I can earn my salvation through works.  Sadly, he doesn't actually understand what the Church teaches, nor do I think he
really wanted to hear the truth that the Church does teach.  But, here's what I attempted to witness to him...