Op-Ed: How New Vatican Orthodoxy Undermines Medical Ethics and Imperils Your Health

February 11, 2010

Catholic hospitals, which boast a long and admirable history of caring for the seriously ill and indigent in the United States, have for many years finessed the challenges of serving two disparate and often incompatible masters. On the one hand, the nation’s 573 Church-run hospitals and their physicians are not permitted by Vatican policy to offer services or advice to patients when doing so violates Catholic teaching. (Huffington Post)