Catholic affiliation stripped from hospital
Mitchell Landsberg
Posted: December 21, 2010.
Posted: December 21, 2010.
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The Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix stripped a hospital of its Catholic affiliation Tuesday for performing an abortion last year that doctors said was needed to save the life of the mother.
Bishop Thomas Olmsted said he no longer had confidence that the administration of St. Joseph’s Hospital would run it according to Catholic teachings, “and therefore this hospital cannot be considered Catholic.”
Leaders of the institution, founded in 1895 by a Catholic order, the Sisters of Mercy, said it would continue to operate “in the Catholic tradition” but without the official sanction of the church.
Awesome. Two birds, one stone. Save a life and shuck an evil old fairy tale. Good riddance.
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