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CATHOLICS, HEALTH CARE AND THE SENATE'S BAD BILL

Column by Archbishop Chaput
March 14, 2010

The following column is scheduled to be published in the March 17, 2010 issue of the Denver Catholic Register.

The Senate version of health-care reform currently being forced ahead by congressional leaders and the White House is a bad bill that will result in bad law. It does not deserve, nor does it have, the support of the Catholic bishops of our country. Nor does the American public want it. As I write this column on March 14, the Senate bill remains gravely flawed. It does not meet minimum moral standards in at least three important areas: the exclusion of abortion funding and services; adequate conscience protections for health-care professionals and institutions; and the inclusion of immigrants. Read More
 
   
 

Bishops Welcome Ruling Against Embryonic Stem Cell Funding, Urge Government to Pursue Ethical Stem C

WASHINGTON 8-25-2010 - Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, welcomed the federal court injunction against the Obama administration’s funding of human embryonic stem cell research, calling the ruling a “victory for common sense and sound medical ethics.” He said this ruling also vindicates the bishops’ reading of the Dickey amendment, the amendment approved by Congress since 1996, which prevents federal funding of research in which human embryos are harmed or destroyed. Read More
 
Catholic Leaders Defend Marriage, Refute Judge's Ruling Overturning Proposition 8

WASHINGTON, DC (CNSNews.com) - August 19, 2010 - Catholic leaders refuted Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling earlier this month that California must stop enforcing Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, and which blames religious institutions' beliefs, including those of the Catholic Church, for harming homosexuals and lesbians. Read More
 
 
Pro-marriage groups laud Ninth Circuit's emergency stay of Prop. 8 ruling

San Francisco, Calif., Aug 17, 2010 / 11:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Responding to the August 4 ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued an emergency stay of the judge's decision. Read More
 
Bishop Olmsted says Prop. 8 decision puts culture's sanity at risk

Phoenix, Ariz., Aug 10, 2010 / 06:36 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Weighing in on what he called the “misguided” ruling by a federal judge who struck down California's Proposition 8 last week, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona declared on Tuesday evening, what “is at stake here is cultural sanity and viability.” Read More
 
Report says quality of Catholic health systems higher than others:

By Catholic News Service August 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic and other church-owned health systems demonstrate greater quality and efficiency than not-for-profit or investor-owned systems, according to a new analysis by Thomson Reuters. Read More
 
 


 
 
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