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الأسقف توماس بابروكي من سبرينغفيلد، إلينوي. / الائتمان: أبرشية Springfield في إلينوي
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 19, 2025 / 17:57 pm (CNA).
Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, and Father Thomas Ferguson will join an advisory board for President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, according to بيان من البيت الأبيض.
رجال الدين الكاثوليك الثلاثة سينضمون سان فرانسيسكو رئيس الأساقفة سالفاتور ج. كورديلوني on the Advisory Board of Religious Leaders for the commission. Two members of the Church hierarchy — Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York and Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota — هم يخدمون في اللجنة itself.
Rhoades, the bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairs the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty. Paprocki, the bishop of Springfield, Illinois, played a major role in the bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” religious liberty campaign during the 2010s, according to the White House.
لا يمكن الوصول إلى بابروكي ولا رودز للتعليق عليها بحلول وقت النشر.
Ferguson, who is a parish priest at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia, also has a doctorate in government and authored “Catholic and American: The Political Theology of John Courtney Murray,” which focused on religious liberty and Catholicism in the United States.
“We’re looking forward … to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence next year,” Ferguson told CNA in an interview, saying he hopes the commission can assist in “pointing out … just how important religious communities like the Catholic Church are to our society.”
Ferguson said the inclusion of Catholic clergy on the commission “is extremely welcomed by our Church,” adding: “It really puts us all in a forum where we can do the important work of educating people.”
One element on which Ferguson hopes to focus is insurance mandates for services that “violate our conscience” on issues such as contraception, sterilization, and transgender drugs and surgeries: “All of these things that we would find morally objectionable, we must be vigilant [against].”
He said he is also concerned about “where this country is going in terms of in vitro fertilization [IVF]” and noted that there are some politicians who “refer to themselves of pro-life legislators [despite] being advocates for IVF.”
“You also need to be protective of human life … created through IVF,” Ferguson said, recalling the ملايين الأجنة البشرية تم تدميرها من خلال عملية التلقيح الاصطناعي.
ناقش فيرغسون قانون جديد في ولاية واشنطن سيؤدي إلى اعتقال الكهنة if they do not report child abuse they learn about during the sacrament of reconciliation, which would violate the “absolute sense of secrecy [of a] … sacramental confession.”
“That’s an area,” he said, where “we can be very consistent in teaching, explaining and clarifying for people: ‘This is how we freely exercise our religion in terms of the First Amendment.’”
لجنة الحرية الدينية
بالإضافة إلى المجلس الاستشاري المكون من رجال الدين ، أنشأ البيت الأبيض أيضًا مجلسًا استشاريًا يتكون من خبراء قانونيين وآخر من القادة العلمانيين. وستساعد هذه المجالس اللجنة في إعداد تقريرها النهائي.
وتضم اللجنة ومجالسها الاستشارية أعضاء من مختلف الأديان، بما في ذلك الكاثوليكية والأرثوذكسية والبروتستانتية والإسلام واليهودية.
وسيحدد التقرير التهديدات الحالية للحرية الدينية في الولايات المتحدة ويقدم استراتيجيات حول كيفية ضمان الحماية القانونية عندما تتعرض الحقوق للهجوم. كما سيضع أساس الحرية الدينية في الولايات المتحدة ويصدر توجيهات حول كيفية زيادة الوعي بالتعددية الدينية السلمية تاريخيا داخل البلاد.
Some of the commission’s key focus areas include conscience protections, free speech for religious bodies, institutional autonomy, attacks on houses of worship, parental rights in education, and school choice.
أنشأ ترامب اللجنة في 1 مايو من خلال أمر تنفيذي ، تزامن مع اليوم الوطني للصلاة.