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Catholic health care facilities ‘battling a culture of death’

The Vatican is concerned about the increasingly anti-life direction of health care ethics, Bishop Jose L. Redrado told journalists at the Vatican while announcing upcoming health care guidelines for Catholic health workers and hospitals, reports LifeSiteNews.com.

Around the world Catholic health care workers and facilities are battling “a culture of death,” he said.

Speaking at a press conference on February 3, officials of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry said a new set of ethical guidelines will be published later this year, as well as a separate document on AIDS prevention.

Council secretary Bishop Redrado referred to the abortion conducted in 2009 abortion at a Catholic hospital in Arizona, which doctors claimed was “necessary.” Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted responded by stripping the hospital of its Catholic status and excommunicating its chief ethicist.

Given such incidents, Church teachings must be presented to the world in language understandable in “modern society,” Redrado said.

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[02/09/2011]

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