Catholic healthcare Archives - Page 7 of 7

Dewane: Church ‘committed to ensuring fundamental right’ to health care
- Jun 19, 2017
“Health care is a fundamental human right, and government is its ultimate guarantor,” Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego said. “The Affordable Care Act for all its flaws was a movement in favor of comprehensive health care. This is a movement away.”

By John Shaughnessy
Health care bill diagnosis: No input from those who care for sick
- Mar 26, 2017
“We’ve just been dismissed,” Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, said about the Republican process of writing the AHCA, noting that she attended a few small group meetings on Capitol Hill, but “they were not meetings to get our input on what ought to be done with the bill but meetings to tell us what was going to be done. This has just been railroaded through Congress.”

By Carol Zimmermann
Vatican unveils updated healthcare charter as new ethical questions arise
- Feb 12, 2017
Professor Antonio Gioacchino Spagnolo, director of the Institute of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, spoke to journalists at the Feb. 6 presentation of a new charter regarding advances in science and how they should be applied alongside the Church’s Magisterium.

By Elise Harris, CNA

Priest’s life captures broader drama of Catholicism in India

Dec 20, 2016

In many ways, 93-year-old Monsignor Nereus Rodrigues was the kind of pastor who “carries the smell of his sheep,” long before Pope Francis started using that vocabulary. He’s been a pioneer in both Catholic schools and Catholic health care in India, believing both have reshaped Indian society.

No easy answers to pastoral questions on assisted suicides

Apr 5, 2016

BALTIMORE (CNS) — As Canada prepares for the legalization of assisted suicide throughout the country in June and nearly half of the U.S. states take up some kind of legislative proposal on the topic this year, questions arise about its pastoral implications. What should a hospital chaplain do if confronted

In Chicago, management challenges await new archbishop

Sep 20, 2014

When Bishop Blase Cupich takes the reins of the Archdiocese of Chicago on Nov. 17, he will be vaulted from a relatively quiet spot in northern Washington State into a hub of American Catholicism, where he instantly becomes a leading figure in the American church. A moderate among Catholic bishops,