{"id":1924722,"date":"2023-05-05T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-yank-federal-aid-over-catholic-hospitals-candle\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T01:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:14:03","slug":"biden-admin-could-yank-federal-aid-over-catholic-hospitals-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-yank-federal-aid-over-catholic-hospitals-candle\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden may withdraw federal aid due to Catholic hospital&#8217;s candle."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-could-yank-federal-aid-over-catholic-hospitals-candle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1924722&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal Funding at Risk for Catholic Hospital in Oklahoma Over &#8220;Eternal Flame&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is threatening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-of-the-biden-administrations-greatest-failures-so-far\/\" title=\"11 Of The Biden Administration\u2019s Greatest Failures So Far\">pull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal funding<\/a><\/a> from a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma unless the hospital extinguishes a chapel candle known as the &#8220;Eternal Flame.&#8221; The candle, which represents the presence of the body of Christ in the Eucharist, has been deemed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-former-msnbc-wunderkind-luke-russert-wages-war-on-childhood-wonder\/\" title=\"Report: Former MSNBC Wunderkind Luke Russert Wages War on Childhood Wonder\">safety hazard<\/a> by the Joint Commission, a hospital accreditation agency. Despite being enclosed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-could-yank-federal-aid-over-catholic-hospitals-candle\/\" title=\"Biden may withdraw federal aid due to Catholic hospital's candle.\">glass candle holder<\/a> with a brass top and located near fire sprinklers, the Joint Commission has denied four waiver requests regarding the candle. This could result in the Saint Francis Health System losing its accreditation and ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayo-clinic-debuts-woke-policies-including-wearable-pronoun-buttons\/\" title=\"Mayo Clinic Debuts Woke Policies Including Wearable Pronoun Buttons\">receive federal funding<\/a> through programs like Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. <\/p>\n<p>The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the law firm Yetter Coleman LLP have taken action on the hospital&#8217;s behalf, threatening a lawsuit unless the candle is left alone. In a letter to the Joint Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Becket Fund stated, &#8220;In requiring Saint Francis to extinguish its flame, you are trying to extinguish not just a candle, but the First Amendment rights of Saint Francis Health System, as well as vital healthcare for the elderly, poor, and disabled in Oklahoma.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the government snuff out the &#8220;Eternal Flame&#8221; and the religious freedom of Saint Francis Health System. Join the fight to protect the rights of the hospital and its patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration could pull federal funding from a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma \u2014 unless the hospital agrees to snuff out a chapel candle known as the \u201cEternal Flame.\u201d According to a letter sent to Saint Francis Hospital South, a lone candle that represents the presence of the body of Christ in the Eucharist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1924723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7629,3620,25892,6011,3974,6126,20760],"class_list":["post-1924722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-aid","tag-biden","tag-candle","tag-catholic","tag-federal","tag-hospitals","tag-withdraw"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}