EXCLUSIVE — Sen marcorubio and a group of GOP lawmakers are demanding the DeptofDefense explain why it terminated a decades-old pastoral care contract with a group of Catholic priests at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
a decades-old pastoral care contract with a group of Catholic priests at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center., the senators requested Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explain why Walter Reed abruptly canceled a pastoral care contract with the Franciscan priests from Holy Name College Friary at the beginning of Holy Week. The Catholic Archdiocese of Military Services said last week that the priests had ministered to the hospital for decades.
"Defense Health Agency doctors are advocating for minors to receive experimental gender transition procedures, but no one seems to be advocating for the right of our service members and veterans to receive the most important sacraments during this most sacred time of year," they wrote.
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