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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A leading Catholic lawmaker and religious freedom advocate has called on the Biden administration to support the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services in a dispute over a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract that a leading U.S. military medical center awarded to a secular defense contractor. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, issued an April 4 'cease and desist' order to Holy Name College Friary, a community of Franciscan pr

Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith tore into President Joe Biden’s administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering to service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, warning that the move calls into question “the Federal Government’s respect for, and protection of, the innate religious rights of Catholics in the United States.”

One of the top military hospitals in the United States has announced that it will review its decision to abandon a Catholic pastoral care contract in favor of a secular defense contractor after the Biden administration was blasted for depriving America’s sick and wounded service members of the life-saving care they need.

Rep. Chris Smith blasted the Biden administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

(AP) — Walter Reed said it notified the Franciscans in March that their contract would not be renewed, and that another bidder for the new contract had been selected — secular defense contractor Mack Global LLC.