Military Hospital Kicks Out Priests

STATUS:
Issued
Is Walter Reed violating free exercise of religion? The short answer to this question appears to be "Yes!" Two days before the beginning of Holy Week, the most important date on the calendar of Christians worldwide, the historic Walter Reed National Military Medical Center issued a cease-and-desist order against a Catholic group that had been providing religious ministries for over two decades to U.S. service members, their families, and the staff at the hospital. We've filed a FOIA request on this and we will get to the bottom of it.