Objectors to the law, including many doctors, consider the registry a “black list” meant to intimidate and eventually discriminate against medical professionals who refuse to participate in abortions.
Health Care
Posted inShort Take
I’m a Catholic doctor in Sudan. We need international aid—at the grassroots level.
When local leaders are equipped and trusted, the impact of humanitarian aid is immediate, cost-effective and lasting.
Posted inNews
Bishops overwhelmingly back ban on ‘gender interventions’ by Catholic health care
The U.S. bishops have approved an updated version of their guiding document on Catholic health care, with substantial revisions that include explicit prohibitions against so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Posted inShort Take
The theology of forgetting: How dementia deepens our understanding of human dignity
Those with dementia are not problems to solve but persons to love—bearers of Christ’s image.
Posted inFeatures
The ‘unapologetically Catholic’ couple bringing prayer and health care to Texas’s uninsured
Acting as doctors within borders, the Thompsons are at the forefront of the health care crisis in the United States, helping the walking wounded who arrive on their doorstep.
Posted inNews
Migration, AI and key leadership votes on US bishops’ fall meeting agenda
The bishops have a full agenda of both temporal and spiritual matters—including votes for key leadership roles as well as discussions on migration, health care directives, artificial intelligence, Eucharistic devotion and liturgical texts.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Catholics and conversion therapy bans: The problem with free speech objections
Therapy is a professional practice with standards of care. To reframe it as a matter of “free speech” is to miss the point entirely.
Posted inThe Weekly Dispatch
After the government shutdown ends, will the U.S. be heading back to the future on health care?
Sister Mary Haddad, head of the Catholic Health Association, on the precarious state of U.S. health care—before and after the shutdown
Posted inShort Take
Our son has autism. We need accompaniment—not Trump’s medical advice.
We don’t spend much time speculating about what caused autism. We know Manny has it, and we will be here for him, whatever that looks like.
Posted inLast Take
Catholic Medical Mission Board’s leader on challenges facing nonprofits today
Nonprofit leaders are operating in a world turned upside down, but we can stay true to the call of the Gospel to serve others.