[Alberta's Child]

There are those who would LIKE the Catholic Church out of the hospital business.

And I'm one of them -- at least in terms of how most Catholic hospitals function no differently than their secular counterparts.

Catholic institutions play such a major role in many northeastern states that the closure of every one of them would result in bedlam of catastrophic proportions.

[RobbyS]

Then they have leverage. So we will see if they have any guts. I expect little from that quarter.