Catholic Hospital with Abortionist on Staff

Dr. Richard Grossman doesn't kill babies at the Catholic hospital in the Diocese of Pueblo, CO where he's a staff physician. He reserves that atrocity for his private practice. But should he be affiliated with a Catholic hospital in view of his off-site child killing? Would the hospital hire Dr. Mengele as long as he did his wicked human experiments somewhere else?

The hospital says they risk a lawsuit for discrimination if they fire the doc. But aren't there some other things they could do -- like inform patients that he's an abortionist? We see more and more laws forcing crisis pregnancy centers to say they don't do abortions. How about offering full revelation about doctors who do? I sure wouldn't want Dr. Grossman anywhere near me for any procedure.

On the other hand, maybe that would just give the guy free advertising. No, he should be sent packing. Catholic hospitals should hire doctors who respect life. How else can they be confident that he will treat any patient's life as worth living? Besides, in some states abortionists are required to be on the staff of a hospital in order to perform their dirty deeds. If that's the case in Colorado, the hospital is enabling the killing.

The Diocese insists the hospital is in full compliance with Catholic teaching, but they are providing cover and an aura of respectibility to an abortionist, reputedly the only one within 200 miles. Imagine the impact if they insisted he stop doing abortions to remain on staff. It's a problem though because, let's face it, most OB/GYNs are killing babies with prescription birth control drugs, the morning after pill, and deadly devices. So Catholic hospitals need to begin working toward the model of Divine Mercy Care where all medicine offered is founded on respect for life. Just imagine the transformation of a community and the benefits to the health of women if doctors stopped killing their babies and polluting their bodies with dangerous chemicals and devices. (Well, I can dream can't I?) Drawing the line with Dr. Grossman is a first big step.

I agree with the pro-lifer who said, “In an age when the Catholic Church is sued on an almost daily basis, wouldn't it be refreshing if the church were sued for preventing child killing at its hospitals instead of for allowing children to be molested?”

Amen, brother.

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Catholic Hospitals and the Ethics of Doubletalk

Senator Sam Brownback is taking a lot of heat lately for endorsing pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius to be HHS head. Human Life International president, Fr. Tom Euteneuer, recently called him a "turncoat" for his actions. But there's a figure closer to home who wears a miter and carries a crosier and whose betrayal is much more serious, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston.

On March 6th the Cardinal approved a decision by Caritas Christi Health Care, the agency managing Catholic hospitals in his archdiocese, to bid for a contract that offers low-income citizens of Massachusetts health-care insurance. The hefty government contract requires that all services mandated by state law be provided including contraception and abortion. Caritas will partner with Centene Corporation, a third party, to do the dirty work. According to Phil Lawler of Catholic World News "if the contract is approved, there would be no hospital in the Boston area that was not involved, directly or indirectly, with the abortion business...this wretched situation would occur not because the government forced Caritas Christi into a morally untenable position, but because the Catholic health-care agency deliberately sought to be involved."

Like the pharisees who scrupulously followed the ritual laws, Caritas, supported by the bishop, engages in ethical doubletalk claiming they will be true to Catholic principles even as they rationalize how to get around them. They will pass the bloody abortion duty to their secular partner to maintain the charade of uninvolvement. (Why does this remind me of an accessory in murder who drives the getaway car?) Cardinal O'Malley's statement says, "Caritas Christi Health Care has assured me that it will not be engaged in any procedures nor draw any benefits from any relationship which violate the Church's moral teaching as found in the Ethical and Religious Directives." No doubt they will srupulously follow the letter of the law including the ritual washing of hands as the innocent are sacrificed.

One has to question, however, why Caritas wants the contract if there is no "benefit" to them. One can only conclude that they will, despite their words, "benefit" from the relationship with the abortion provider. The partnership enables Caritas to take the government money while maintaining that they are innocent of involvement in child-killing. It's a travesty and pro-lifers in Boston aren't buying it. Catholic hospitals in this country are neck deep in the culture of death. This is just one more example of it.

Cardinal O'Malley's support for the Caritas betrayal is unconscionable. As Lawler says, "the Boston archdiocese...[should] deliver an emphatic message that the Catholic Church does not want, and will not seek, any connection, however remote, with the culture of death."

Congress may have its turncoats, but they do less damage than those who hold episcopal office. Please pray for Cardinal O'Malley and all the bishops of the United States.

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