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 ...
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!
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
Truly
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.
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.
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.
No. Obsessions of the kind that damage the soul are quite sad. We all must pray for those who are falling.
Misinterpretation, or did someone get caught in a lie, and the good Bishop didn't want to point that out.
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.
Vicious anti-Catholic fetishism proceeds apace.
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.
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!
So there are only 3 choices here?
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.
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.
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.
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