To quote my mother: “It’s like they’re trying to make Lutherans of us all.”

Sister Margaret was a senior administrator of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. A 27-year-old mother of four arrived late last year, in her third month of pregnancy. According to local news reports and accounts from the hospital and some of its staff members, the mother suffered from a serious complication called pulmonary hypertension. That created a high probability that the strain of continuing pregnancy would kill her.

“In this tragic case, the treatment necessary to save the mother’s life required the termination of an 11-week pregnancy,” the hospital said in a statement. “This decision was made after consultation with the patient, her family, her physicians, and in consultation with the Ethics Committee.”

Sister Margaret was a member of that committee. She declined to discuss the episode with me, but the bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmstead, ruled that Sister Margaret was “automatically excommunicated” because she assented to an abortion.

“The mother’s life cannot be preferred over the child’s,” the bishop’s communication office elaborated in a statement.

I guess it’s not news that Catholic bishops prefer children over adult women. Gotta keep those sacristies stocked with altar boys.

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6 replies on “Today in Catholicism”

  1. Did you hear that Dan Savage hates the Roman Catholic Church and is able to reduce everything to a mediocre joke about childhood sexual abuse?

    Oh, you did? My bad.

  2. Well, then good for Dan. Because when they aren’t fucking kids or excommunicating their members, they are repeating the lie that god is real and that the church knows his will. Just another hate group; nice work, Dan.

  3. The Roman Catholic Church is run by gay old men in long dresses. I have pointed this out to DS before, but he seems too paranoid to get it.

  6. Graham. I don’t recognize the validity of the Holy See because it is bullshit just like every other assertion made by the Catholic Church. I don’t have to prove a negative, and I don’t chase unicorns, wood nymphs or deities.

    PROTIP: Existence

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