Archbishop Charles J. Chaput and a lesson in priorities

Saw this by the archbishop of Philadelphia about the HHS mandate(for Sterilization contraceptives and abortifacient coverage under ObamaCare) and the extermination of religious minorities in the middle east.  Here is a sample from the archbishop.

The extermination of religious minorities in the Middle East — what Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan calls “attempted genocide” — has so far drawn a very different response.

How should we as Catholics respond? We can start by realizing that a discomfort about dealing with religious liberty issues abroad has been part of the culture of America’s foreign policy bureaucracy for a long time, despite the 1998 law. Our current national leadership has simply made it worse. As much as we love our country — and Catholics have proven that love again and again in public service and in combat — our primary loyalty as Catholics is to Jesus Christ, to the Church as our community of faith and to our fellow Christians. They come first; and if in our hearts we don’t place them first, then we need to take a hard look at what we mean when we say we’re “Catholic.”
 

It is well worth reading.  Read it all.  A lesson in priorities