The legalization of euthanasia in Canada—so-called medical assistance in dying, or MAID—challenges our common values and shakes the very foundations of our living together.
Health Care
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuit-educated Dr. Anthony Fauci to teach at Georgetown University
Georgetown University announced Monday that it has appointed Dr. Fauci the Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s department of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
The controversial history of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic health care guidelines
With rapid advances in medicine and sweeping changes in the U.S. health care landscape, some are suggesting that the U.S. bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services needs a complete overhaul.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Transgender treatment at Catholic hospitals: U.S. bishops vote to begin process that could formally ban it
While most Catholic hospitals already refrain from offering transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions, the vote means that the bishops will move to formalize such bans.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Giving birth in the US is too dangerous and deadly. Congress has a chance to change that.
Maternal mortality has reached alarming levels in the U.S., especially in the Black community. The Catholic Health Association strongly supports a package of laws to better care for mothers and infants.
Posted inFaith, News
Dr. Michael Brescia, ‘apostle to the dying’ and hospice trailblazer, dies at age 90
Dr. Michael Brescia, who prescribed love as an antidote to calls for assisted suicide, died at his home in Yorktown Heights, New York, surrounded by immediate family the evening of April 19. He was 90.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic women weigh in on abortion drug mifepristone as legal battle heats up
In recent weeks, the battle over abortion focused on mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States and which can also be used following a miscarriage.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
How the Catholic health care system can serve our Muslim sisters and brothers
Catholic health care providers aim to heal the whole human person—body, mind and spirit. That means providing accommodations for to meet the needs of Muslim patients.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
What a ministry for people with disabilities taught me about the problem of evil—and God’s response to it
Mustard Seed Communities began as a response to the needs of abandoned and disabled children in Jamaica, and God is present even in the midst of the suffering faced by people there.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Podcast: Fighting racism in our hospitals
This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Dr. Amanda Joy Calhoun about the deep vestiges of racism in our medical institutions and the strategies she is using to challenge them in her own practice.