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Tyler Catholic hospital sterilizations
The Dallas Morning News ^ | Nov 24, 2008 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 11/24/2008 2:50:32 PM PST by Alex Murphy

The Catholic bishop of Tyler has announced that a church investigation found that Catholic hospitals in his diocese had been performing sterilizations, in contravention of church law -- even though they'd indicated that they hadn't been. Here's what Bp Alvaro Corrada, SJ, had to say about the matter:

I wish to address the matter of direct sterilizations in Catholic Hospitals in the Diocese of Tyler. Last June it was reported by anonymous researchers that a large number of tubal ligations performed in Catholic Hospitals in the state of Texas. Initially both Catholic hospitals in the Diocese of Tyler responded that they were in compliance with the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services. Sadly, subsequent investigation reveals that there had been a serious mis-interpretation of the ERDs and that in fact many direct sterilizations had been done and continued to be done at the time of the article.

As a Bishop, I am deeply saddened and upset by this news. As Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, I have to admit my failure to provide adequate oversight of the Catholic Hospitals as regards their protection of the sacred dignity of each human person.

Many causes and complications that have resulted in this unacceptable situation. I continue to work directly with the Catholic Hospitals in the Diocese of Tyler, and with my brother Bishops in the state of Texas, to bring an end to immoral procedures and to put in place some method of ongoing accountability and transparency of monitoring both protocols and actual practices. As Catholics, we must insure all people seeking health care in our Catholic Hospitals will be treated with respect and dignity as Jesus teaches us. The Church has approved the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services as binding upon our Catholic Hospitals ...


(Excerpt) Read more at dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com ...


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1 posted on 11/24/2008 2:50:33 PM PST by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

Sorry but I would rather see people sterilized than unwanted babies born, or abortions. The church should wake up, there are too many dumb people - this past election proved my point!


2 posted on 11/24/2008 3:10:35 PM PST by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: Alex Murphy

What..no naked priests?


3 posted on 11/24/2008 3:11:03 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: big'ol_freeper
What..no naked priests?

So many to choose from - take your pick:

Fr. Paul Stanosz
Francis T. Gera
The Rev. Anthony Mercieca
Father Olan Rynn
Fr Wieslaw Pawlowski
And finally, The priests in World of Warcraft

4 posted on 11/24/2008 3:24:21 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: big'ol_freeper
Please don't post any Protestant indiscretions, you'll get banned. Protestants and Jews and schoolteachers don't do anything like that...or are they just protecting the offenders and letting them go from church to church, school to school, wreaking their havoc.
5 posted on 11/24/2008 3:43:46 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: tiki

Truly


6 posted on 11/24/2008 3:50:09 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: tiki

I just find the naked priest fetish curious. Usually you associate that kind of fixation with the type of person who has a room full of pictures pasted to his wall of the object of his fetish. Freaky.


7 posted on 11/24/2008 3:52:52 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: big'ol_freeper

LOL, I have tried imagining certain people before but it scared me and I quit. I’m not an FBI profiler but some things become obvious over time. Obsession is not a good thing, I don’t think.


8 posted on 11/24/2008 4:41:39 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: ohiogrammy
It might be good to think about the increase in the rate of unplanned pregnancies and of single moms' having babies since effective and affordble contraception became available. yeah, "on paper" it seems as if a society which made sterlization and contraceoption available would have fewer "unwanted" babies. In practice it seems different.

The promises of contraception and sterilization have been broken. That's the reality.

There seems to be one way to decrease "unwanted" babies: Increase self-control.

9 posted on 11/24/2008 5:14:10 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: tiki

No. Obsessions of the kind that damage the soul are quite sad. We all must pray for those who are falling.


10 posted on 11/24/2008 5:18:47 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: Alex Murphy
Sadly, subsequent investigation reveals that there had been a serious mis-interpretation of the ERDs

Misinterpretation, or did someone get caught in a lie, and the good Bishop didn't want to point that out.

11 posted on 11/24/2008 6:14:38 PM PST by PAR35
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To: tiki
Please don't post any Protestant indiscretions

Like these?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2136303/posts

you'll get banned.

My, I got banned and I didn't even notice.

12 posted on 11/24/2008 6:18:44 PM PST by PAR35
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To: big'ol_freeper; tiki

Vicious anti-Catholic fetishism proceeds apace.


13 posted on 11/24/2008 6:20:38 PM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: PAR35
Misinterpretation, or did someone get caught in a lie

Oh, here I thought you were talking about something else. Imagine that - someone posting something about the thread article!

...the good Bishop didn't want to point that out.

The end of the full article concluded with this (I was sorry I had to excerpt it, because IMO it was this point that made it FR-worthy):

Good for Bishop Corrada. It was especially noteworthy that he seems to have been misled by the hospitals, but he didn't shirk from accepting responsibility for not regulating them closely enough.

14 posted on 11/24/2008 6:35:45 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: Mad Dawg

I attended a Right to Life banquet last week. The speaker stated that three thousand abortions are committed daily in this country. Yep birth control has done a lot of good!


15 posted on 11/24/2008 6:45:39 PM PST by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: ohiogrammy

So there are only 3 choices here?


16 posted on 11/24/2008 7:27:40 PM PST by Patriotic1 (Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Petronski; tiki

I believe with a few sick souls it has even gotten worse.

I visualize beavis and butthead sorts of persons feverishly searching out anything negative they can find about the Catholic Church. They attain the same sick sort of soul destroying rush that many get from seeking out pornography.

It is indeed quite sick.


17 posted on 11/24/2008 7:34:47 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: ohiogrammy
If you perchance missed it, do read the article about which this thread is.
18 posted on 11/25/2008 3:54:33 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: ohiogrammy

The abortion mentality is caused by the same mindset that approves contraception and sterilization. After all, abortion is just a back-up when birth control fails. It all goes back to the idea that sex should be separated from its natural end, which is procreation, that those who wish to indulge in carnal pleasure should not have to “suffer” the consequences of their actions. Because the logical conclusion of this idea is that anything that prevents the conception or birth of an “unwanted” baby is morally acceptable.

Finally, I’m just really offended by your use of the term “unwanted babies.” Would you just as willingly accept the term “unwanted grandmothers?” Don’t you think that this kind of language dehumanizes the unborn?

Shame on you. You may be old but you aren’t very wise. And before you lash back at me, let me add that I’m the mother of six children, one of whom was born with birth defects. Not only was I offered an abortion before she was born, which I refused, the doctor also offered to perform a tubal ligation when I was in labor, which I also refused. After all, it would have been beneath my dignity as a human being to allow myself to be spayed like an animal.


19 posted on 11/25/2008 5:10:25 AM PST by steadfastconservative
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The abortion mentality is caused by the same mindset that approves contraception...

Comparing abortion and contraception is appalling, and no one who does so should ever be taken seriously; I don't care how many children you've had.

As long as you don't try and legislate your opposition to contraception on the rest of us, you're welcome to your opinion.

But for those of us who believe that freeing a woman from perpetual pregnancy with birth control methods is a good thing, we say keep your anti-contraception laws at your own home and at church. The rest of the civilized world isn't interested.

20 posted on 11/25/2008 9:12:27 AM PST by GunRunner
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