Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion

[Rita]

Doesn?t make sense to me. This nun gets excommunicated but pedophile priests get juggled parish to parish. She is one awesome, courageous, compassionate being.

Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion
by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY

?...........The patient, who was too ill to be moved to the operating room much less another hospital, agreed to an abortion. But there was a complication: She was at a Catholic hospital.
"They were in quite a dilemma," says Lisa Sowle Cahill, who teaches Catholic theology at Boston College. "There was no good way out of it. The official church position would mandate that the correct solution would be to let both the mother and the child die. I think in the practical situation that would be a very hard choice to make."
Sister Margaret McBride, who was an administrator at the hospital as well as its liaison to the diocese, gave her approval.
The woman survived. When Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted heard about the abortion, he declared that McBride was automatically excommunicated ? the most serious penalty the church can levy. .........?

Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion : NPR




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[Bob]

they did her a favor

 

[Rita]

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they did her a favor

good point. I hadn't thought of it that way. And they wonder why the flock is leaving in record numbers.



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[Bob]

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good point. I hadn't thought of it that way. And they wonder why the flock is leaving in record numbers.



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it ain't about love or forgiveness, that's for sure

 

[Rita]

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update:
Now Bishop Olmsted, Phoenix, has demanded that the hospital never again terminate a pregnancy to save the life of a mother. Appears the hospital has stood up to him and said no.

"If you look at Bishop Olmsted and Sister Margaret as the protagonists in this battle, one of them truly seems to me to have emulated the life of Jesus. And it?s not the bishop, who has spent much of his adult life as a Vatican bureaucrat climbing the career ladder. It?s Sister Margaret, who like so many nuns has toiled for decades on behalf of the neediest and sickest among us.
Then along comes Bishop Olmsted to excommunicate the Christ-like figure in our story. If Jesus were around today, he might sue the bishop for defamation.
Yet in this battle, it?s fascinating how much support St. Joseph?s Hospital has had and how firmly it has pushed back ? in effect, pounding 95 theses on the bishop?s door. The hospital backed up Sister Margaret, and it rejected the bishop?s demand that it never again terminate a pregnancy to save the life of a mother." - KRISTOF

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion/27kristof.html?_r=1


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[poppy]

 

[scooterbug44]

They performed a life-saving procedure on a patient so sick she couldn't even be moved to an operating room .................... and the church gave them the harshest possible penalty they could and took steps to make sure that it didn't happen again.

Look no further for why the number of atheists is climbing rapidly. :roll:

IMO the teachings of Jesus and organized Christian religion parted ways long ago.

 

[AlphaCrab]

they did her a favor

Ditto, bro.

 

[DuneAHH]

they did her a favor

Ditto, bro.

double dog ditto!

Good for the Sister and St.Joseph's!
isn't there a line, something to the effect
"... been thrown out of better clubs than this before..." ?