At this week's meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of the agenda items is "a revision of Part Three of the Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) for Catholic Health Care Services ...

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The U.S. Catholic bishops will vote at their spring assembly this week on whether to amend their official directives for American Catholic health care institutions to mandate that Catholic facilities ...

In recent years, the market share of Catholic hospitals—which unconscionably restrict healthcare options for all patients in accordance with Catholic dogma, which many patients don’t share—has grown ...

Resident physicians Brooke Jemelka, Gavin Puthoff and Alexis Simon stand around Carmen Hinze as the proud father, Dan, looks on in her recovery room after she delivered her new son, Thaddeus, at Mercy ...

The bishops have a full agenda of both temporal and spiritual matters—including votes for key leadership roles as well as ...

A Catholic sister who has advocated for transgender individuals within the faith recently expressed surprise after a bishop who voted to revise medical guidelines related to gender-affirming care said ...

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Catholic officials have said the directive is consistent with previous doctrine. But the revised language eliminates what many Catholic ethicists viewed as flexibility in its application to patients ...

The lawsuit argues that the federal government acted unlawfully when in July 2022 it directed that hospitals and emergency rooms would be required to perform abortions under the 1986 Emergency Medical ...