Awful. In an interview the U.S. Catholic Sister Carol Keehan, D.C., president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association supports the healthcare legislation and wonders if opponents of Obamacare are truly pro-life.
She asks “For us as Catholics it’s very hard to be pro-life when we don’t give many many mothers who are pregnant care. Or we don’t give pediatric care, well baby care or sick baby care to children. We have nine million uninsured children in this country. That’s not pro-life.”
Sister Keehan urges Congress not to table the bill. What ticks me off is that she’s using the same ridiculous argument that Congressman Patrick Kennedy used by questioning whether opponents of Obamacare are truly pro-life. And he got into trouble with his bishop because of it. Wonder if the same will be true for Sister Keehan.
HT Catholic Key on Twitter.
March 4, 2010 at 5:06 am
I'd be angry about this…. wait, I am angry about this.
…but, as I was going to say, at least it reminds me to do everything I can to truly live the Pro-life cause, and not just agree that "something should be done" over cookies and tea.
March 4, 2010 at 6:18 am
Interesting that Richard McBrien's "Catholicism" is in the center of the picture!
March 4, 2010 at 6:23 am
What to expect from a nun?
March 4, 2010 at 8:22 am
I wonder what the good sister's take on the Apostolic Visitation is? Would it be cynical to suspect that she is not a supporter of that enquiry?
March 4, 2010 at 8:22 am
Spare us the lecture, sister, until you can wrap your mind around what Mother Teresa said about abortion being the "greatest destroyer of peace."
March 4, 2010 at 8:25 am
Oh, and quit blaspheming John Paul the Great after what he had said: 'Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination' (Pope John Paul II, 1988, The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Christifideles Laici), n.38)
March 4, 2010 at 9:40 am
No habit no listen.
March 4, 2010 at 10:45 am
A nun not wearing a habit tells me all I need to know about anything she has to say
March 4, 2010 at 11:32 am
I do hope Obamacare never passes. But if it ever does and abortions increase ten-fold, then her idiocy will become apparent. I would not be so hard on this person because of her limited faculties. Instead, I would go after Card. Sean O'Malley more because drags his feet in opposing Catholic pols who support abortion and feels the need to have Pope Benedict clarify the pastoral direction that the Church should take – as though he is ignorant of canon law and the statements of the popes. He makes me want to go Boston with a baseball bat – really. He does have a blog in case you want to vent or inform this prince of the Church.
March 4, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I never trust a nun who's not in a habit and women like this confirm once again why I feel like this.
March 4, 2010 at 1:11 pm
St. Paul of Progressivism: "These three things: changing the subject, begging the question, and ad hominem. The most important of these is ad hominem."
March 4, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I notice that there is not only one, but TWO, copies of of Dick McBrien's "Catholicism" conspicuously placed on the bookshelf there… I guess one book of heresy isn't enough.
March 4, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Really. There is no one who takes care of pregnant women? Gosh, in my city alone there are 23 agencies. Of course, the local abortuary would never tell their clients this fact. The scariest thing in the world is the government helping out families. It has no values, conscience, or compassion. Why give a child a stone when he asks for bread?
March 4, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Diane–
I concur–no habit no listen to the babble.
(Mrs. S.)
March 4, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Well…I hate to say this…I agree with her, there are way too many uninsured Americans to make any Catholic comfortable, let alone apathetic to the plight of these people. However, Obamacare is NOT the answer. We need comprehensive reform (and yes, Mein Fuhrer, despite what you think, that will take time and much debate…) We need that reform to help these same people, not to mask universal abortion coverage by patronizing these "poorest of the poor"…There is room and money in this greatest country on earth to help ALL people, without having to choose between the poor, the uninsured, the unborn, or the elderly. There's room for all, even those this current administration fails to recognize as "someone".
March 4, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Elm @ 9:48 am for the win!
March 4, 2010 at 5:18 pm
God's clemency should not lead us to neglect our duties and become lazy and, comfort-seeking, living sterile lives. He is merciful, but he is also just and he will punish failure to respond to his grace.
"There is one case that we should be especially sorry about–that of Christians who could do more and don't; Christians who could live all the consequences of their vocation as children of God, but refuse to do so through lack of generosity.
We are partly to blame, for the grace of faith has not been given us to hide but to share with others (cf. Mt 5:15f). we cannot forget that the happiness of these people, in this life and in the next, is at stake. The Christian life is a divine wonder with immediate promises of satisfaction and serenity–but on condition that
we know how to recognize the gift of God (cf. Jn 4:10) and be generous, not counting the cost" (St. J. Escriva, "Christ Is Passing By", 147).
March 4, 2010 at 5:24 pm
It is rare for me to trust sisters who don't where their veils.
March 4, 2010 at 6:53 pm
She lies. You can walk into any hospital in this country and they cannot refuse you care. Walk into St. Jude's if you are destitute and your child has cancer. Walk into Scottish Rite Hospital if your child has a disability – they are there to help you, free of charge, if you truly are in need. Charitable organizations (like the Church) used to help before they spent all their wealth on the pedophile habits of the clergy. And hey, using a pro-life arguement is just gross, when your bill provides for abortion or abortion through contradeception.
Modern nuns are so economical. Why assault just one sense when they can assault all five at once?
Barry Gibb circa 1972 wants his suit back.
March 4, 2010 at 6:58 pm
This "Catholic" works for a "Catholic" agency that pays her a nearly $800k salary largely on government transfer payments. I suppose these just and living wages will continue under Obama Care.
I would not be so bitter if it weren't for the fact that my aunt died w/four bedsores on her buttocks, heel sores, and starved to death in a CHA home where the staff said they did not have "time" to take care of her–my belief is that it was because she was a medicaid patient.
Unfortunately, there were at least two other patients also being neglected to death in this whited sepulchre–one a double amputee–while my aunt lay dying. What occurred to me at the time was that these abandoned patients should have been set outside this home on stretchers for the nuns or Christian townspeople to come gather if they would.
But that was the Catholic home.
How to compare this pro-self hardened professional (unveiled and unbowed) with Mother Teresa – they can't both be nuns – I don't know.
http://app2.health.state.pa.us/commonpoc/Content/PublicWeb/ltc-survey.asp?Facid=451402&PAGE=1&NAME=ST%2E+MARY+MANOR&SurveyType=H&COUNTY=MONTGOMERY