Aletaia: Sister Mary Scullion, RSM, a longtime homeless advocate and executive director of Project H.O.M.E., says that in addition to violating religious liberty the policy has had a “devastating impact on the lives of those who live on the [Benjamin Franklin] parkway.”
In every case, these bans have directly threatened the right of Christians to practice what our Lord commands in Matthew 25: “For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat.” That is almost certainly not the intent – just as curbing the right of Catholics to teach and heal may not have been the intent of the HHS Mandate – but the effect is the same. And the response among Christians who feed the hungry has been the same as the Catholic bishops: We will not comply. More on this here.
