Catholic thanatophilia, December 2010
Some readers of the Texas Taliban post have expressed surprise that some rules against abortion can be downright murderous, so I thought I would go digging through the archive. I too was surprised in...
View ArticleDecember 2010: Episcopal evil
Here’s the December 2010 post in which I became aware that it’s explicit Catholic church policy that women should be allowed to die rather than have a life-saving abortion. December 26 2010 The ACLU...
View ArticleBishop to hospitals: let women die, that’s an order
Yes really. This isn’t my usual hyperbole, it’s exactly what the bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmsted, tells the president of Catholic Healthcare West in an official letter dated November 22, 2010. I now...
View ArticleThe marketers advise them
Deep breaths taken. Onward. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, formerly archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan, tells us what keen supporters of women’s rights he and his friends in the church are. He also explains...
View ArticleAnd now a word for the laydeez
Another treasure from @UCCB – a patronizing ode to wimmin, from a boss of an organization that excludes women from all power and thinks its “God” is a man. You know what it says without reading it....
View ArticleACLU 1 USCCB 0
It’s about time. Sarah Posner reports that – at last! – a judge rules for the ACLU in a challenge to the stinking meddlesome theocratic US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Late yesterday a federal court...
View ArticleA custody fight
NPR’s god-besotted religious affairs reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty shyly points out that bears shit in the woods and the Catholic church is not the most liberal institution in the world. She’s very...
View ArticleThe bishops prattle of humility
The US Catholic bishops are chastened by their failure to impose their religious views on the electorate last week, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan lectured them yesterday on what to do about it. To think...
View ArticleIt’s not just Ireland
I’ve been re-reading the National Women’s Law Center report on religious restrictions at hospitals that put women’s lives at risk, from January 2011. It’s about what happened to Savita Halappanavar...
View ArticleHospital administrators interfered
More detail, from the full report by the National Women’s Law Center. the Study revealed four serious lapses in care resulting from religious restrictions: Doctors performed medically unnecessary...
View ArticleStart at the beginning
Now. Let’s be thorough about this. I need to understand the Ethical and Religious Directives – commonly and folksily called ERD – and just exactly how they function, and why. I need to know if and how...
View ArticleThe ERD part 2
The US Catholic bishops’ orders to Catholic health care providers. Page 20 still. 28. Each person or the person’s surrogate should have access to medical and moral information and counseling so as to...
View ArticlePart 3 of the Legion of Death’s “Directives”
The instructions. Prenatal diagnosis is not permitted when undertaken with the intention of aborting an unborn child with a serious defect. No matter what the defect. No matter how unable the parents...
View ArticleBut it’s not just Ireland
Ann Marie Hourihane has an interesting piece in the Irish Times on how awkward it is for her to be in the US right now, because of all the shocked questions about how that hospital could have let...
View ArticleShut up and obey
In writing that post I turned up this item from The Catholic Phoenix a couple of years ago. It’s special. Denys Powlett-Jones is commenting on the leaking of the bishop’s infamous letter to Catholic...
View ArticleNo VAW Act for you
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops covers itself with glory again by finding stupid pettifogging reactionary reasons to refuse (officially, publicly, in a statemently) to support the Violence...
View ArticleFinally – WOMAN SUES US CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Yesssssssssss. It’s about fucking time. USA Today: Woman sues over Catholic hospitals’ abortion rule DETROIT — A Michigan woman is taking on the nation’s Catholic hospitals in federal court, alleging...
View ArticleACLU Sues Bishops on Behalf of Pregnant Woman Denied Care at Catholic Hospital
The ACLU has a press release on its lawsuit against the bishops, so I can just publish the whole thing here for your enlightenment and discussion. ACLU Sues Bishops on Behalf of Pregnant Woman Denied...
View ArticleThis kind of infection kills women
Dr Jen Gunter says the doctors at that Catholic hospital in Michigan should be sued along with the bishops. This case happened at Mercy Health Partners,, a Catholic hospital in Muskegon, Mich. What...
View ArticleThe only hospital in Muskegon County
Let’s take a look at Tamesha Means v United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [pdf]. Plaintiff Tamesha Means brings this negligence action against the United States Conference for Catholic Bishops...
View ArticleThe lies bishops tell
The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, archbishop Joseph Kurtz, issued a statement on the ACLU lawsuit on Friday. It’s the predictable pack of lies from the episcopal sack of shit. Yes...
View ArticleI never can keep my temper when reading a bishop
The bishops are still demanding more and more and yet more theocracy. They think the US should simply be run by the Vatican, period; nothing less will do. They hate anything that’s not total...
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