In early April, the leadership at the Catholic Benefits Association anticipated the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would soon announce proposed regulations that could pose an existential threat to religious-based employers including Catholic hospitals. On July 25, HHS finally released
"Serious thinking" about inequality in health care "is a task we can no longer put off," Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told a New York audience March 30.
Archbishop Paglia spoke on "The Serious Problem of Inequality in
People have a right to life, not to death, which must be welcomed but never provoked, Pope Francis said.
"The right to care and treatment for all must always be prioritized, so that the weakest, especially the elderly and the sick, are never
Although scientists have made great strides in the field of medicine, genuine care and listening to those who suffer must always be at the forefront of any therapy, Pope Francis said.
"Patients are always more important than their diseases, and for this reason,
Several Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university and Mercy sisters who run health clinics filed a challenge to a federal mandate for performing gender transition procedures with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit Dec. 15.
The groups are continuing a fight
The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests Dec. 13 from New York health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its health care employees.
The Supreme Court denied the requests from the two groups in a brief
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., has urged Congress to pass the Conscience Protection Act.
It would amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit government discrimination against health care providers who, on serious moral or religious grounds, strongly object to participating in medical
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Helen Alvaré, a law professor at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, examines a recent decision by the Supreme Court to deny a Catholic hospital’s request to dismiss a complaint for transgender
The Supreme Court Nov. 1 turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a transgender patient.
The court's decision, issued without comment, sends the lawsuit back to state court and avoids
The Supreme Court is allowing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in Maine to remain in effect, rejecting an emergency appeal from a group of the state's health care workers seeking a religious exemption.
Although the one-sentence order issued Oct. 29