Crazed Liberal Nun Endorses Senate Bill

Since many Catholic Hospitals offer or recommend abortion services, this is hardly surprising, but what might cause some mirth is that they're a lot like chronic alcoholics back at the bar again supporting the Senate Bill and creating confusion amongst Catholics. They were reprimanded earlier this year for their unqualified support for this bill (which they recanted, falling in line with the male-dominated USCCB) and now they're at it again. Sr. Keehan, a liberal, non-habit wearing religious poseur, is ever eager to support her true coreligionists in the Democratic Party, but will she make heaven? It would be hoped that the Apostolic Visitation should visit her and insure that she finds her way to a nice pasture someplace, or perhaps a job more suitable to her, running a totally secular social services organization outside the Church.

This whole thing raises some other questions as well. Since attempting to import many things from the world, like Msgr Dale Fushek's attempt to import music and strange guru youth retreats, or the aborted attempt to awaken IHM Nuns to the wonders of modern psychology or of Benedictine Monks to do the same with the predictable results from what Cardinal Schonborn calls the "Spirit of 68", do we really need to continue on the same course set for us by most of the policies of the USCCB and Sr. Keehan herself, who continue to insist that we ought to be more worldly. It really goes against the teachings of the Church Fathers, for example. Perhaps what we need is more traditional morality, less modern psychology and false Catholic religious.

As a House vote on the Senate health bill nears, the Catholic Health Association threw its support behind the legislation with a strong statement over the weekend. The CHA, which represents hundreds of Catholic hospitals around the country, noted, "We expect to see charges and counter charges about what is in the bill and how it will work," in a surprising acknowledgement of some misinformation that has circulated in some Catholic circles recently.

The group's endorsement is not entirely surprising--the CHA supported the Senate's approach to abortion funding last December. Throughout the development of health reform and negotiations over abortion language, the CHA has also been more encouraging than the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on the question of whether it is possible to craft legislative language that provides broad coverage while also preventing federal funding of abortion. Because of this, Democrats have sometimes made too much of the CHA's openness and support, while downplaying the significance of opposition from the bishops conference.

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