In an interview on the Eternal Word Television Network, Raymond Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the highest ecclesiastical court in the Catholic Church, has stated that an employer who pays for insurance coverage for contraception is “formally cooperating” in the sin of contraception, and that such cooperation cannot be justified. [LifeSite News]
The statement is significant with respect to the general issue of complicity in wrongdoing, which is the concern of conscientious objectors.