• A review by Catholics for a Free Choice of the approximately 150 hospital mergers in the past decade has identified 40 such situations in which sterilization services were preserved but are now jeopardized by the revised Directives . (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • In so ruling, the Obama Administration [through this bill] has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty. (michaeljournal.org)
  • And as a result, unless the rule is overturned, we Catholics will be compelled to either violate our consciences, or to drop health coverage for our employees (and suffer the penalties for doing so)," reiterated Most Reverend Alexander K. Sample, Bishop of Marquette, Michigan. (michaeljournal.org)
  • The bishops stressed that prayer and education are needed to counter threats to religious liberty and gave the faithful practical suggestions, noting that Catholics should first thank God for religious liberty. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The bishops urge Catholics to speak out to protect Catholic doctors, nurses and hospitals. (mercatornet.com)
  • More than 1,000 Catholics attended the ordination of Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang of Zhoucun in Shandong province on Nov. 15. (ucanews.com)
  • Bishop Yang told ucanews.com that he would like to enhance formation and vocations of clergy and Religious as the diocese does not have enough Church workers, with only 13 priests and three nuns, to care for the 18,000 Catholics. (ucanews.com)
  • As you've probably noticed by now, the response of conservative Catholics to President Barack Obama's decision to require full birth-control coverage from employers who provide health insurance has been to accuse the administration of an attack on religious freedom. (prospect.org)
  • These Catholics, and in particular, the Catholic Bishops, would prefer a regime that allows a broad exemption for Catholic-affiliated hospitals, even if they employ nonadherents and serve the general public. (prospect.org)
  • Catholics were asked by their bishops to write the health Minister. (theinterim.com)
  • Even many faithful Catholics who should be most sympathetic to the church's arguments have grown weary of the divisiveness and worry that the all-consuming quality of the religious-liberty battle now seems to define American Catholicism. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • When mosques are burned, Islamophobia is a well-funded industry , and the Republican presidential nominee has proposed a ban on Muslims entering the country, Catholics must speak boldly and act with more urgency to demonstrate our solidarity with a religious minority under siege. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • Health care professionals have come under pressure to perform abortions or distribute drugs that violate their pro-life principles, the bishops noted. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • While the Bishops claim to be in accord with Church teaching on the matter, the only statement from the Vatican on the measure opposed it since the pill can cause abortions. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The Catholic Medical Association, the largest professional organization of Catholic physicians in the U.S., is resolutely opposed to the use of the abortifacient morning after pill in Catholic Hospitals even in cases of rape because of its potential to cause abortions. (lifesitenews.com)
  • His tweet insinuated that no organization will be exempt from performing abortions, not even Catholic hospitals. (lifenews.com)
  • Religious Directives written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops forbid doctors in Catholic hospitals from performing abortions unless a woman is in grave danger. (typepad.com)
  • Indeed, he can seek to force Catholic doctors to perform sex transition surgery and close down Catholic hospitals that refuse to perform abortions. (catholicleague.org)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, is suing Catholic hospitals for not performing abortions. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • In Seattle, a merger with religiously affiliated Providence Hospital led secular Swedish Hospital to stop providing elective abortions. (aclu-wa.org)
  • Bishops' health care directives depriving poor women of most commonly used form of contraception, especially at non-Catholic hospitals merged with Catholic hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Washington, DC -A coalition of leading women's health care advocates called today for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to revise their Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (Directives) and end their ban on voluntary female sterilization at Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Fifteen organizations, including women's health, rights, and research groups, cited a review of 150 hospital mergers in the past decade that has identified at least 40 non-Catholic hospitals that had merged with Catholic hospitals and now face having to comply with the Directives and stop providing female sterilization to thousands of women, many of them poor. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Responding to pressure from the Vatican, the bishops had voted to revise the Directives in June 2001, putting sterilization on par with abortion and euthanasia as an "intrinsically immoral" service and banning the procedure at all Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Non-Catholic hospitals across the country are now struggling to find ways to avoid complying with the Directives and to continue to provide tubal ligation, a service that is one of the most affordable and safest methods of contraception. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • As organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of women, we respectfully ask the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to reconsider its June 2001 decision to revise the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (" Directives ") as they relate to the provision of sterilization for women. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The revised Directives strictly limit the ability of non-Catholic hospitals that have merged with Catholic hospitals to provide voluntary female sterilization. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Catholic hospitals operate under the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services , which for obstetrics and gynecology residents may create barriers to receiving adequate training in family planning. (allenpress.com)
  • We're taking a stand today to fight for pregnant women who are denied potentially life-saving care because doctors are forced to follow religious directives rather than best medical practices," said ACLU of Michigan Staff Attorney Brooke A. Tucker. (aclu.org)
  • Trinity Health Corporation, which is headquartered in Michigan and owns and operates more than 80 hospitals around the country, and receives public funding, requires that all of its facilities abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (aclu.org)
  • These directives prohibit a doctor working at a Catholic hospital from terminating a woman's pregnancy even when the failure to do so puts her health or life at risk. (aclu.org)
  • A hospital policy like the Directives that limits what physicians can tell and offer our patients and prohibits us from providing our patients with the best possible care is extremely dangerous," said Timothy R B Johnson MD FACOG, Chair of OB/GYN at University of Michigan. (aclu.org)
  • A public health educator in Michigan discovered that at one of Trinity's hospitals alone, at least five women who were suffering from miscarriages and needed urgent care were denied that care because of the Catholic directives. (aclu.org)
  • The directives bar doctors at those hospitals from offering - or even discussing - certain reproductive health care services, even when those services are necessary to protect a woman' s health. (aclu.org)
  • In December 2013, the ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU sued the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of Tamesha Means, a woman who was denied appropriate medical treatment because the only hospital in her county is required by the bishops to follow religious directives that put women's health at risk. (aclu.org)
  • Meeting in Orlando for their spring meeting, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops overwhelmingly decided via a voice vote to begin a process of revising the Ethical and Religious Directives, guidelines that draw from theology and church teaching and regulate the roughly 2,200 Catholic hospitals and health care facilities in the United States. (americamagazine.org)
  • The section of the directives that the bishops voted to revise has not been updated since 1994. (americamagazine.org)
  • Cardinal Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, said that one of the main questions in any revisions to the directives related to transgender patients must be "How do we help people who are wrestling with dysphoria? (americamagazine.org)
  • Some bishops said that the drafting committee should look at the legal impact of any revisions, particularly at how federal health care guidelines could impact Catholic hospitals, while others, including Bishop Michael Olson, who heads the Diocese of Fort Worth and who serves on the doctrine committee, said that a broader pastoral document about gender dysphoria could be helpful after the directives are updated. (americamagazine.org)
  • Catholic-affiliated hospitals follow the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which require hospitals to refuse to provide care that conflicts with the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. (aclu-wa.org)
  • St. Joseph Hospital has a policy of not providing "elective" sterilizations, as they are in conflict with Catholic beliefs, and the lawsuit states that Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, prepared by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, refers to them as "intrinsically evil. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • The U.S. bishops voted on Friday to begin a process that could lead to rules formally banning Catholic hospitals from offering medical procedures and therapies sometimes collectively described as gender-affirming care. (americamagazine.org)
  • The coalition's call was contained in a letter to Bishop Wilton Gregory, who was just elected president of the USCCB at its fall 2001 meeting, which closes today in Washington, DC. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The coalition offered to work with the USCCB to design a solution to preserve voluntary sterilization in all mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • the USCCB is comprised of 271 bishops. (michaeljournal.org)
  • Representatives Christopher Smith (R-NJ), who had a track record of introducing legislation favored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Tom Coburn (R-OK) tried unsuccessfully to insert a provision prohibiting "coverage for abortifacients," claiming that newly approved emergency contraceptive pills and the intrauterine device were abortifacients because they could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting. (salon.com)
  • They took up this issue in a virtual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). (catholicleague.org)
  • The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is meeting this week to elect a new president. (justcatholic.org)
  • In November, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a revised ethical and religious directive similar to the Tulsa bishop's. (ksut.org)
  • Father Wu Kexing of Zhoucun expects Bishop Yang, 40, will bring a new scenario to the evangelization of the diocese. (ucanews.com)
  • Chen Ke, university student and niece of Bishop Yang, hopes her uncle will develop youth ministry, noting that the diocese only established a Catholic group for university students about two years ago. (ucanews.com)
  • Bishops from every diocese in the U.S. have spoken out against the mandate, warning that it violates religious freedom and could force Catholic hospitals, schools and charitable agencies to shut down in order to adhere to their beliefs. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Our Catholic hospitals in the Diocese give millions of dollars per year in donated services to the poor. (catholicherald.org)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union has also asked the federal government to investigate Catholic hospitals for declining to provide abortion and emergency contraception, alleging that the hospitals are violating federal law. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The administration of Plan B pills in this instance cannot be judged to be the commission of an abortion because of such doubt about how Plan B pills and similar drugs work and because of the current impossibility of knowing from the ovulation test whether a new life is present," says the Bishops' letter. (lifesitenews.com)
  • This HHS proposal will reverse three federal laws protecting the conscience rights of health care providers, especially those at risk of being discriminated against because of their moral or religious objection to abortion. (mercatornet.com)
  • Absent an affirmative strategy, attacks on abortion from strident opponents like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have achieved incremental erosions in access to abortion. (nwhn.org)
  • They like his pro-abortion and anti-religious liberty record. (catholicleague.org)
  • It is the fact that regional boards filled with political appointees or elected representatives could prescribe activities such as abortion and euthanasia in Catholic, Lutheran or Salvation Army Hospitals. (theinterim.com)
  • Every pregnant woman who enters an emergency room should be guaranteed that she will get the care she needs, and should not have to worry that she won't get appropriate care because of the hospital's religious affiliation. (aclu.org)
  • A hospital's religious affiliation may impact patients' access to important health care services. (aclu-wa.org)
  • We young priests have strived to develop the Church but I think the young new bishop would inject more vitality," he told ucanews.com. (ucanews.com)
  • The Mass at the Pro-Cathedral was celebrated by Archbishop Martin with papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown, Catholic Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin, his predecessor Cardinal Seán Brady, past and present members of the Irish Bishops' Conference and many priests and religious of the Dublin archdiocese. (irishtimes.com)
  • The rector of the cathedral Very Rev. Gregory Sakowicz will bless and dedicate the statue in the garden after Mass. Principle concelebrants include priests of the Archdiocese of Chicago and religious communities with ties to Mother Cabrini's mission and missionary zeal. (archchicago.org)
  • But as Higgins and the hospital's last few nuns on staff prepared for an emotional departure from the hospital, it seemed to be Jackson providing much of the comfort. (famvin.org)
  • Higgins is part of an order of Catholic nuns called the Daughters of Charity, which founded Buffalo's oldest hospital in 1848 and provided health care to tens of thousands of area residents over the years. (famvin.org)
  • Nuns haven't worked in significant numbers in area Catholic hospitals for decades, and even the five women at Sisters, due to their age, served in recent years mostly in a part-time capacity. (famvin.org)
  • In accordance with Catholic moral teaching, these hospitals provide emergency contraception after appropriate testing," says the letter from the Bishops. (lifesitenews.com)
  • At its Annual Meeting in 2003, the Catholic Medical Association passed a resolution correcting theologians who have erroneously suggested that it would be legitimate for Catholic hospitals to provide "emergency contraception" to rape victims. (lifesitenews.com)
  • LifeSiteNews.com has learned that some Catholic hospitals in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, California and Washington also offer so-called 'emergency contraception' to some rape victims with the approval of local Catholic bishops. (lifesitenews.com)
  • It was the Catholic Church, more specifically the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, that largely engineered Hobby Lobby to block the legitimization of contraception as a standard health insurance benefit-a last ditch effort to prevent by law what it couldn't prevent from the pulpit: women from using birth control. (salon.com)
  • When charges that contraceptives were abortifacients failed to halt the measure, the bishops turned to a new tack: claiming that contraception equity laws violated the religious freedom of insurers and employers who disapproved of contraception and would be forced to subsidize its use. (salon.com)
  • The document also lists some things that could be expected from a Catholic hospital, including bans on contraception. (lifenews.com)
  • Because this rule isn't a big change from the status quo, supporters also argue that this "controversy" has less to do with religious freedom and more to do with the political positioning of the Catholic bishops as well as their long-standing opposition to contraception (which isn't shared by a large majority of the Catholic laity). (prospect.org)
  • A legal group that aims to defend religious freedom has launched a new website offering a wealth of resources on the contraception mandate, and the various lawsuits that have been filed against it. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • In its suit, the school says that health care reform's contraception mandate violates its religious freedom and would require it to go against Catholic principles by offering contraception and sterilization to students and faculty in its insurance plan. (yahoo.com)
  • The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other religious organizations objected to this, saying that the organizations' premiums would still be helping to pay for the contraception in that scenario. (yahoo.com)
  • A spokeswoman from the Department of Health and Human Services told Yahoo News that she couldn't comment on pending litigation, but that the department is still forming its contraception rule for self-insured religious schools. (yahoo.com)
  • Catholic leaders have spent years and millions of dollars in legal fees fighting for more religious exemptions in contraception coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that years before health-care reform was passed some Catholic institutions, with little furor, already offered their employees insurance coverage that included birth control coverage. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • That case, which is currently on appeal, charges that the Bishops acted negligently in issuing a policy that requires hospitals to violate not only the law, but also the standard of care. (aclu.org)
  • She explained that when the information "is laid out clearly in one place," it is evident that the mandate's requirements violate the First Amendment's protections of religious freedom. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The revision will reverse the right of hospitals and medical practitioners to seek exemption from participating in procedures that violate their religious beliefs. (justcatholic.org)
  • Catholic hospitals that serve vulnerable Americans regardless of their backgrounds are central ministries of the church and should not be forced to violate its religious teachings. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Chicago celebrates the kickoff of a jubilee year with a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Robert Casey, vicar general, on Nov. 13, 2021. (archchicago.org)
  • METHODS: The machine learning model was trained and tested using 101 sets of data from pregnant women who were examined and had their delivery in Peking University Third Hospital in between December 2019 and January 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • St. Joseph Hospital spokesperson Christian Hill indicated in an email to the Journal that the hospital is still in the process of "gathering details" about the lawsuit and "will communicate as appropriate with the media. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launches its annual Fortnight for Freedom campaign this week . (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • A recent video from the conference illustrates how unhinged the debates over religious liberty have become. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • If a patient or family didn't want a feeding tube "and the reason they don't want it is they basically want to die, then the Catholic institution would explain to them they can't cooperate with that and they would have to go to another institution," said the Rev. Thomas G. Weinandy, executive director for doctrine at the bishops' conference, who helped draft the policy. (ksut.org)
  • Catholic colleges, hospitals, and other Christian organizations will be forced to go against their conscience. (michaeljournal.org)
  • As U.S. hospitals become increasingly affiliated with religious organizations , the health of American women is threatened by the refusal to provide medically appropriate and often times lifesaving services. (aclu.org)
  • Now, the country's leaders are expecting religious organizations to perform life-destroying procedures that contradict their values. (lifenews.com)
  • International nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and media continued to report members of all religious groups were, to varying degrees, subjected to government abuses and restrictions. (state.gov)
  • Private business owners have also joined in objecting to the mandate, arguing that religious freedom extends not only to religious organizations but also to religious individuals seeking to run non-religious companies in accordance with their faith. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • A few dozen Catholic dioceses and other religious organizations also filed suit today. (yahoo.com)
  • The Obama administration announced in February that religious organizations such as schools and hospitals would not directly have to offer birth control to their employees. (yahoo.com)
  • Employers' insurance plans will have to offer birth control without a co-pay starting in August, but religious organizations will have another year before they must do so. (yahoo.com)
  • Efforts to restrict the rights of individuals and institutions because of their religious or moral beliefs are on the rise here in Maryland and around the nation," the bishops wrote. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • In the " Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body ," the bishops addressed both hormone therapies and surgical procedures related to gender. (americamagazine.org)
  • The Church is not a political organism, but as you hopefully have learned in the US Bishops Faithful Citizenship material (which we have made widely available to you in the parishes, in the Compass and on-line), the Church has the responsibility to speak out regarding moral issues, especially on those issues that impact the "common good" and the "dignity of the human person. (catholicherald.org)
  • Hospitals and nursing homes do not have to comply with requests that are "contrary to Catholic moral teaching," according to longstanding policy that, as in the case of the revised directive, applies to non-Catholic patients as well. (ksut.org)
  • As a result, this mandate would coerce each and every individual Sister of Life to betray her religious vows. (michaeljournal.org)
  • There was a lot of misinformation out there on the mandate," said Emily Hardman, attorney and communications director for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a D.C.-based organization. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • In his visit to the White House last September, Pope Francis affirmed that religious liberty is "one of America's most precious possessions. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, the apostolic administrator of Baltimore, and Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Earlier this month, the ACLU of Michigan sent a demand letter to Genesys Hospital run by Ascension Health in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on behalf of Jessica Mann, a pregnant woman with a life-threatening brain tumor who was denied a request for a tubal ligation at the time of her scheduled cesarean section delivery next month. (aclu.org)
  • The ACLU has brought an action under the Freedom of Information Act against the federal Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) seeking complaints against Catholic hospitals for denial of emergency medical treatment. (typepad.com)
  • The ACLU complaint describes instances where women seeking treatment for miscarriages were turned away from emergency rooms at Catholic hospitals. (typepad.com)
  • Instead of lawsuits, the ACLU could embrace a more robust understanding of religious liberty as a fundamentally liberal value, and recognize that reducing faith to private spirituality is wrong. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • The woman who received one of the few gold pens handed out at President Obama's signing ceremony of the Affordable Care Act now has to defend Catholic hospitals from ACLU challenges. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • The ACLU does not object to hospital mergers per se, but believes that no patient should be refused access to lawful health care because of the religious ideology of the institutions running hospitals, clinics, or other medical facilities. (aclu-wa.org)
  • While most Catholic hospitals already refrain from offering transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions, the vote means that the bishops will move to formalize such bans by incorporating guidance from a document released by the U.S.C.C.B.'s doctrine committee in March. (americamagazine.org)
  • And one result of these mergers is of great concern to civil libertarians: The restriction of health care services based on religious doctrine. (aclu-wa.org)
  • Her doctors and St. John officials debated how to proceed, struggling with ethically charged issues that hundreds of Catholic hospitals and nursing homes could face under new doctrine. (ksut.org)
  • The head of the Catholic Health Association, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals and other health care facilities, said that she hopes the revision process will "engage in broad consultation with patients suffering from gender dysphoria and providers who care for them to ensure the health of the whole person. (americamagazine.org)
  • We will continue in earnest our discussions with Administration officials in an effort to find a resolution, but, after much deliberation, we have concluded that we have no option but to appeal to the courts regarding the fundamental issue of religious freedom,' he said. (yahoo.com)
  • This is followed by a grant of a cemetery and burial rights to the hospital by the prior and convent of St. Mary Southwark, under certain restrictions. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • For employers, concerns about religious restrictions are far from academic. (aclu-wa.org)
  • Are our Catholic bishops or any hierarchy aware of this or involved in any way? (ncronline.org)
  • Pairing images of Islamic State militants ready to behead Christian prisoners with ominous warnings of the Obama administration's harassment of religious ministries epitomizes how the hierarchy risks making itself its own worst enemy on the issue. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • A handful of bishops took to the floor ahead of the vote and urged the committee to broaden its consultations ahead of any proposed revisions, including meeting with people who identify as transgender. (americamagazine.org)
  • Long after many orders of women religious removed themselves almost entirely from hospital work, the Daughters of Charity continued to provide at least a handful of sisters for its namesake hospital. (famvin.org)
  • I have seen nothing from Rome that assures me there is any intent in the Vatican to hold bishops accountable. (ncronline.org)
  • The bishops recounted how this practice ended only decades later when the colony was placed under royal control and the Church of England became the established religion. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Catholic bishops are not licensed medical professionals and have no place dictating how doctors practice medicine, especially when it violates federal law. (aclu.org)
  • However, its mission, stated in Volume One, Number One, remained essentially steadfast: "to become the medium through which the best thought and practice in hospital service to the sick will be worked into the lives of those who are consecrated to this service. (chausa.org)
  • Attacks on religious freedom in medical practice are the unintended but predictable consequence of the USCCB's tacit support for Biden in 2020. (justcatholic.org)
  • Calling the proposed revisions "a delicate matter," Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle said such consultations were "absolutely necessary" and should also include physicians and hospital administrators. (americamagazine.org)
  • A recent study of two Dallas hospitals published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that a reported 28 patients whose water broke or who were experiencing other serious complications before 22 weeks gestation were denied medical intervention by their physicians until there was an "immediate threat" to their lives or fetal cardiac activity stopped. (today.com)
  • regardless of the provider's conscientious objection or long-standing religious beliefs against such coverage," wrote Cathy Deeds of the NCCB. (salon.com)
  • The directive raises fresh questions about the ability of patients to have their end-of-life treatment wishes honored - and whether and how a health care provider should comply with lawful requests not consistent with the provider's religious views. (ksut.org)
  • The 600 Catholic hospitals in the United States are coming under increased scrutiny for "providing care in accordance with their-our-religious beliefs. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Legislation in Maryland to recognize same-sex "marriage," which failed to pass in 2011, would have done "grave harm" to religious liberty because it provided no protections to individuals and only limited protections to institutions to allow them to maintain their "sincerely held beliefs about marriage. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • I congratulate today's graduates who have combined your university studies with your practical work here in a children's hospital. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • Our Lady's Children's Hospital is a hospital with an ethos of great professionalism and the highest standards of care and we have every right to be proud of that tradition. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • We all look forward to the day when here in Ireland we will enjoy having a modern purpose-built state-of-the-art children's hospital, inserted into a broad national programme of care for children's health. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • This hospital is committed to working in the years to come with the other children's hospital to ensure the success of that project and its preparation. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • However, when we speak of a modern purpose-built state-of-the-art children's hospital, we are not talking just about bricks and mortar or wonderful super-modern equipment. (catholicbishops.ie)
  • We evaluated how training at a Catholic hospital affects trainees' subsequent provision of reproductive health services at secular institutions. (allenpress.com)
  • The regulation has received widespread criticism from individuals and groups from a variety of religious and political backgrounds. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • At the same time, the perversion of religious liberty into a bludgeon against women's health, workers' rights, and LGBT equality has caused some progressives to forget that religious freedom is a fundamentally liberal value. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • Bishops oppose mandates that jeopardize the operation of Catholic health facilities. (justcatholic.org)
  • Religious leaders of all denominations and the faithful regularly attended worship services and religious celebrations. (state.gov)
  • The federal government, which claims to be 'of, by and for the people,' has just dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people - the Catholic population - and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful," said Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell of Springfield, Mass., told his congregation on Sunday. (prospect.org)
  • Just a smattering of women religious from various congregations will now be left doing local hospital work, as chaplains, nurses or volunteers. (famvin.org)
  • When it comes to keeping small parishes alive and active, it's best not to join them to a harem of other conjoined parishes, where pastors who pastor two or three or more conjoined congregations will burnout fast, given the reality that Catholic bishops always have an assigned priest to head parishes. (ncronline.org)
  • Since 1974, we've kept close tabs on all things related to religious and reproductive freedom. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Such a exception would also allow the millions of Catholic and non-Catholic women who choose sterilization each year to exercise their freedom of conscience at the hospital of their choice, in their community. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Religious freedom is fundamental to a free society, but some political and cultural trends are threatening that freedom, the Catholic bishops of Maryland said in a new statement. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • While Americans presently enjoy many freedoms, there has recently been a "subtle promotion" of the idea that religious freedom should be restricted only to Sunday worship. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The bishops' statement hearkened back to the Maryland colony's Toleration Act of 1649, the first American law to protect religious freedom. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • They should also pray for elected leaders and public officials whose actions affect religious freedom, and for those who disdain or do not appreciate that freedom, the bishops said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The government's lack of transparency and intimidation of civil society and religious communities created difficulties for individuals who wanted to obtain information on the status of societal respect for religious freedom. (state.gov)
  • U.S. officials in Asmara and Washington continued to raise religious freedom concerns with government officials, including the imprisonment of Jehovah's Witnesses, lack of alternative service for conscientious objectors to mandatory national service that includes military training, and the continued detention of Patriarch Antonios. (state.gov)
  • The Catholic bishops have revealed that they're fighting to restrict birth control, not protect religious freedom. (prospect.org)
  • It's one thing to defend religious freedom, it's something else entirely to pick a fight with the near-100 percent of Americans who have used-or will use-birth control at some point in their lives. (prospect.org)
  • American Muslims, in fact, have the most legitimate reasons to fear for their religious freedom. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • WHEN THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT (RFRA) passed Congress in 1993, Republicans and Democrats rallied to support it. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • This is of great concern to the bishops, and a large contingent of them are considering whether Biden is deserving of Holy Communion. (catholicleague.org)
  • It sponsored a petition aimed at pressuring the bishops to "cancel your planned anti-Biden vote. (catholicleague.org)
  • This obligation," the bishops said, "extends to patients in chronic and presumably irreversible conditions," such as persistent vegetative state, who might live for many years if given such care. (ksut.org)
  • Nearly one of nine hospital beds in the country is in a Catholic facility. (aclu.org)
  • Roughly one in six hospital beds are in a Catholic facility, with the top four U.S. Catholic health systems expected to take in more $90 billion from Medicare and Medicaid in 2016, according to the ACLU's 10-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. (typepad.com)
  • Indeed, if all proposed mergers go through this year, nearly half of all hospital beds in Washington will be in religiously affiliated facilities. (aclu-wa.org)
  • It is estimated that 30-37% of hospital admissions statewide are to religiously affiliated hospitals, and 40% of hospital beds are in religiously affiliated hospitals. (aclu-wa.org)
  • The government closed a number of Catholic and other religious-run secondary schools and health clinics, citing a 1995 law prohibiting religious institutions from providing social services. (state.gov)
  • Numerous recent reports have confirmed that many hospitals and clinics in the United States are offering even the most extreme transgender procedures, including powerful puberty blocking drugs and body-mutilating surgeries, to teenagers, some as young as thirteen. (hli.org)
  • Good, religion-specific chaplaincy support is under threat in the NHS but is essential in all hospitals. (ncregister.com)
  • A government inquiry is urgently needed into restoring hospital chaplaincy to its rightful place. (ncregister.com)
  • Per the Official Catholic Directory, Collery was transferred in 1983 from Metarie LA to a chaplaincy at Good Samaritan Hospital in Pottsville PA. (bishop-accountability.org)
  • We can also confirm that several of these hospitals, like Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, CA, are the only hospitals providing sterilization services for women in the area. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Hoag Memorial Hospital, a revered institution headquartered in Newport Beach, has been trying since last May to dissolve its affiliation with Providence. (latimes.com)
  • Staff at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach say it's facing retaliation for trying to end its affiliation with Catholic chain Providence Health. (latimes.com)
  • The hospital has continued to refuse to provide the medically necessary treatment. (aclu.org)
  • Thus, the bishops conclude, such interventions are not morally permissible. (americamagazine.org)
  • In 1919 ACS officials examined 671 hospitals in the United States, but only 198 were able to meet the minimum requirements and make the list of standardized hospitals. (chausa.org)
  • Baptisms, weddings, and funerals organized by both the recognized and unrecognized religious groups were widely attended, including by senior government officials. (state.gov)
  • RNS) A cycle of violence in the Central African Republic is quickly degenerating into a religious conflict between Christians and Muslims, amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis, church leaders and U.N. officials warn. (religionnews.com)
  • Although she had an advance directive specifying no artificial hydration or nutrition if she weren't going to recover, local health officials said, her nephew insisted the local bishop's directive on use of feeding tubes required the Catholic hospital to install one. (ksut.org)
  • found an hospital near the cathedral church, but outside the cemetery. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bishop Joseph Ma Xuesheng of Zhoucun, who has been in hospital for months, did not attend the ordination at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral at Zibo city. (ucanews.com)
  • For those interested in religious tourism, There are several churches within Hoima town such as St Peter's Anglican Cathedral and Hoima Catholic Cathedral which both have unique architectural designs. (trackstick.com)
  • While most Catholic hospitals already refrain from offering transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions, the vote means that the bishops will move to formalize such bans. (americamagazine.org)
  • Since we are neither employers, nor employees, or any religious institution, we cannot even take advantage of the'religious exemption'contained in the new regulations or'compromise. (michaeljournal.org)
  • The Catholic bishops' interest in "conscience clauses" that would allow employers to opt out of reproductive health care services began in earnest in the late 1990s, with the increased viability at the state and national levels of contraceptive equity measures designed to ensure that health plans covered prescription contraceptives like the Pill just like other prescription medications. (salon.com)
  • If a DOCTOR has a religious belief that God created human beings, male and female, and that we should accept our bodies as beautiful gifts from God, that DOCTOR should not be coerced or penalized by the government to perform procedures of gender transition. (justcatholic.org)
  • I trust that any Catholic hospital that does not find itself on this printed list of minimum standard hospitals will immediately institute a court of inquiry, will not cease its endeavors, until an answer has been obtained to the question: 'Why am I not on the list? (chausa.org)
  • A Maltese Catholic priest who served as a chaplain in a London hospital received £10,000 in a settlement with the United Kingdom's National Health Service after he alleged he was fired for expressing the Church's teaching on homosexuality. (ncregister.com)
  • The university serves 11,500 students of different religious faiths, and is traditionally led by a Catholic priest as president. (yahoo.com)
  • St. Joseph Health issued a brief statement last night in response to the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday alleging transgender discrimination at its Eureka hospital, saying it takes the allegations "very seriously" and is committing its "full attention to investigating this matter. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this morning alleging that St. Joseph Hospital violated the rights of a transgender man by refusing to perform a medically necessary surgery because of his gender identity. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 29-year-old Oliver Knight, of Eureka, seeks unspecified damages and a court order that would prevent the hospital from discriminating against patients on the basis of gender identity or expression. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • The lawsuit states that Knight's surgeon, Deepak Stokes, scheduled the hysterectomy at the hospital for Aug. 30, 2017. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • When Mr. Knight asked to instead wear a blue gown, a hospital nurse refused, telling him that a pink gown was required because he was receiving a 'female' procedure," the lawsuit states, adding that hospital staff also repeatedly mis-gendered Knight despite "the fact that his medical records clearly identify Mr. Knight as male. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • Then, just minutes before the procedure was scheduled to begin, the lawsuit alleges Stokes came and told Knight the surgery had been cancelled by the hospital and would not be rescheduled because St. Joseph Hospital is a Catholic facility. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • According to the lawsuit, Knight, who had come to the hospital alone, was then forced to sit outside "under the influence of medication administered by the hospital and experiencing a panic attack, until he was able to secure a ride home. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • As such, the lawsuit alleges that St. Joseph Hospital regularly allows surgeons to perform hysterectomies on cisgender women when the procedures are deemed necessary to treat certain diagnosis, including uterine fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic support problems and gynecological cancer. (northcoastjournal.com)
  • They appealed to the bishops' to adhere to their position on providing equitable health care for all, particularly low-income people who cannot afford health insurance. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Surely a pastoral exception can be made to allow non-Catholic hospitals in partnership with Catholic hospitals to provide a health care service that is so needed and vital, especially for low-income women. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • This will certainly hurt the many health care services to the poor given by our Catholic hospitals. (catholicherald.org)
  • Sister Carol Keehan, CEO of the Catholic Health Association, was vilified by some Catholic bishops for rallying behind health-care reform legislation. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • One notable phenomenon is a spate of mergers, often involving religious health care corporations taking control of secular health institutions. (aclu-wa.org)
  • Hospitals tied to religious institutions already play a major role in our health care system. (aclu-wa.org)
  • In certain areas of Washington, the only hospitals or health care facilities serving the public are religiously affiliated. (aclu-wa.org)
  • Bishop Richard Malone will celebrate a Mass this morning in St. Louis Catholic Church to commemorate the order's lengthy tenure at Sisters Hospital. (famvin.org)
  • The principle celebrant and homilist for the Mass will be Bishop Daniel Turley, OSA, Bishop Emeritus of Chulucanas, Peru. (archchicago.org)
  • And if this happens, Republicans who have hitched their wagon to the bishops-like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum-will be in for an unpleasant surprise. (prospect.org)
  • To commemorate 75 years of Hospital/Health Progress , this article focuses on the healthcare trends that dominated the decades and how the journal has communicated them since 1920. (chausa.org)
  • All archidiaconal rights of visitation were ceded to the hospital, so that no archdeacon of Surrey nor his official could exercise any kind of jurisdiction over any persons, regular or secular, within the hospital in any causes, civil or criminal. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • Toronto Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic, commenting on the campaign, hoped that government would :meet with the representatives of the Catholic hospitals, before it proceeds with any legislation affecting the hospitals. (theinterim.com)
  • We are not strangers: our Churches, religious institutions, hospitals, and office buildings have a raised flag of Pakistan. (zenit.org)
  • The White House has issued a statement saying that religious institutions have one year (date) to comply with the new bill. (michaeljournal.org)
  • On the efforts to redefine marriage, the bishops said that these initiatives put at risk the religious liberties of individuals and institutions that acknowledge heterosexual marriage "not only as a fact of nature but also as an article of faith. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • This has never been the American way and now these moves and others by the present government, will significantly alter and marginalize the role of religious institutions in our society. (catholicherald.org)
  • We will still be led as a Catholic institution, as a Daughter of Charity hospital," Bergmann said. (famvin.org)
  • As PSBJ reported (July 3), Governor Inslee has directed the Department of Health to update the state's rules for approving hospital mergers. (aclu-wa.org)
  • His successor was David Cunningham (bishop) who managed to negotiate an understanding between James VI and the 4th Earl of Huntly. (wikipedia.org)
  • Providence Health, the giant Catholic healthcare chain fighting an effort by a leading California hospital to end their partnership, is quietly trying to marshal support for its position that it's better for the two entities to remain together. (latimes.com)
  • HARTFORD, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A statement issued by the Connecticut Catholic Bishops yesterday, which is posted on the Catholic Conference's web page, notes that the Bishops have approved the administration of the morning after pill Plan B for rape victims at the four Catholic hospitals in the state. (lifesitenews.com)