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Bishop Says Hospital That Aborted Dying Fetus to Save Mother No Longer Catholic
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Roman Catholic Bishop of Phoenix has stripped St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center of its 115-year church affiliation because administrators -- including a nun -- allowed doctors to remove a dying 11-week-old fetus from a mother of four because she would have died without the procedure. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said the procedure was an abortion, which can never be justified under church teaching. He added that because the hospital would not agree to demands to acknowledge the error and operate under his direct supervision it could no longer use the "Catholic" label or have Mass ...
Vatican Rules: Ordaining Women Priests a Crime Like Sex Abuse of Children
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNew rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law. Church sources told Catholic News Service that the new "norms," as the policies are called, will include the "attempted ordination of women" among the list of most serious crimes, or what are known as "delicta graviora." Sexual abuse of a minor by a priest was added to the classification in 2001. The new norms are largely expected to codify changes made in 2001 and 2003 that were aimed at ...
Abortion and Excommunication: An E-Z Cartoon Lesson 4 Kidz
By David Gibson - Politics Daily"Chalk talks" have long been a favorite method for Sunday school teachers to illustrate a Bible story, as alumni of the pre-Power Point days of religious education will recall. But can the same blackboard method work to explain the complexities of abortion and excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law? Not to mention the ethical principle of the double-effect? The American Life League thinks so. The ALL's nifty video explainer below stems from the case of the nun at a Phoenix hospital who was declared excommunicated last month by the local bishop for agreeing to ...
Nun Excommunicated For Abortion Decision To Save Mother's Life
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWhen it comes to Catholic teaching on abortion, no exceptions are allowed. Even if carrying a pregnancy to term would result in the death of both mother and child, abortion is still not an option. Which is why a nun who is an administrator at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix this week found herself formally excommunicated -- essentially the sacramental equivalent of capital punishment. The episode stems from a series of events that began last November, when a 27-year-old woman who was 11 weeks pregnant with her fifth child was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. ...
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