Sydney Morning Herald - Dec. 22, 2010
A US hospital has been stripped of its ability to call itself Catholic because of a surgery that ended a woman's pregnancy to save her life.
Bishop Thomas Olmsted announced the decision to remove St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Centre's Catholic status at a news conference in Phoenix.
Bishop Olmsted said "the equal dignity of mother and her baby were not both upheld". He called the surgery an abortion.
Bishop Olmsted said the hospital is in violation of ethical and religious directives of the national Conference of Catholic Bishops. The 697-bed hospital does not receive direct funding from the church, but it will be prohibited from celebrating Mass and must remove the Blessed Sacrament from its chapel.
Hospital officials said the surgery was allowable under exceptions to the church's abortion policy.
This article is from: http://www.smh.com.au/world/hospital-loses-catholic-status-over-surgery-on-pregnant-woman-20101222-194nt.html
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