Bishops Should Stick To What They Do Best...

[Minimalist]

protecting pedophiles. Leave the heavy thinking to those who can handle it.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic...rtion.html

A Catholic nun and longtime administrator of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was reassigned in the wake of a decision to allow a pregnancy to be ended in order to save the life of a critically ill patient.

The decision also drew a sharp rebuke from Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese, who indicated the woman was "automatically excommunicated" because of the action.

Neither the hospital nor the bishop's office would address whether the bishop had a direct role in her demotion. He does not have control of the hospital as a business but is the voice of moral authority over any Catholic institution operating in the diocese.

If this frocked fuckwit is an example of catholic "moral authority" then it is time to close all their fucking churches down and turn them into Starbucks' or something useful.

[downbeatplumb]

protecting pedophiles. Leave the heavy thinking to those who can handle it.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic...rtion.html

A Catholic nun and longtime administrator of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix was reassigned in the wake of a decision to allow a pregnancy to be ended in order to save the life of a critically ill patient.

The decision also drew a sharp rebuke from Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, head of the Phoenix Diocese, who indicated the woman was "automatically excommunicated" because of the action.

Neither the hospital nor the bishop's office would address whether the bishop had a direct role in her demotion. He does not have control of the hospital as a business but is the voice of moral authority over any Catholic institution operating in the diocese.

If this frocked fuckwit is an example of catholic "moral authority" then it is time to close all their fucking churches down and turn them into Starbucks' or something useful.

This is a good example of religious dogma being used for evil.

Its small minded petty.

[chatpilot]

Exactly why religious dogma is just one more tool to maintain people in perpetual ignorance.

[Minimalist]

"In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother's life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy," Pfister said.

This pious motherfucker was willing to kill a real, live, woman to "save" a non-viable smear of goo.

I cannot put into words the contempt I have for these despicable excuses for human beings.

[Zen Badger]

Religion, dragging us kicking and screaming into the 14th century.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

@Min

For that reason,my devout mother would never give birth in a Catholic hospital.

Her attitude was: "I can have another baby. I'm harder to replace as a wife and mother".

This 'automatic excommunication' stance gives met shits. The callous cunt.. Both of a girfriend's parents were automatically excommunicated in 1949,after her mother had 8 births. (5 live) She had a tubal ligation as the doctors told her if she had any more births she would probably die.