“Yemen is desperate for peace,” Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in which 24 million people have no choice but to depend on international aid.
Health Care
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: How does systemic racism shape health care in the U.S.?
A conversation with Dr. Sarah Kureshi on Covid-19 and racial bias in the health care system
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
What does Trump’s reversal of transgender health care policy mean for Catholic providers?
The administration’s final rule for section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act was deplored by advocates for L.G.B.T. rights, but welcomed by the U.S. bishops to “restore the rights of health care providers.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
N.Y. Archdiocese, Somos care offer Covid-19 tests in underserved communities
The Archdiocese of New York, in partnership with Somos, an immigrant doctors network, will offer covid-19 testing to underserved communities in New York City.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Church leaders urge scientists to develop ethical Covid-19 vaccine
The Vatican and bishops around the world have been urging governments and scientists to support the development of vaccines that have no connection to abortion.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Scholars: Health, wealth both integral to society’s managing of pandemic
A “thicker conception” of the common good is needed and is precisely what Catholic social teaching can contribute to the public conversation.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court rejects appeals to lift restrictions on congregation size
The church had argued that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening orders violated the Constitution because they placed fewer restrictions on some secular businesses than they did on houses of worship.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Most Americans support universal health care. But can it actually happen?
How to expand health coverage while containing costs is one of the great unanswered questions in American politics.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Sister Carol Keehan: How the pandemic could reshape the U.S. health care system
We can no longer tolerate the serious problems that result from a broken and fragmented health care financing system.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
All hospitals want to save lives. Should they also be seeking to save ‘life years’?
The ethical problem with talking about ‘expected life years’