The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Administrative Committee March 15 approved release of the 14-page statement by the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine, chaired by Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas.
Medically changing person’s sex characteristics to those of opposite sex ‘not morally justified,’ say bishops
Brazilian church provides aid to the Yanomami, call for justice upon “genocide”
The current crisis is the result of the dismantling of the health care services provided by the government to the Indigenous over the past few years and of the invasion of their territory by illegal miners.
Politics, courts involved in U.S. health care’s 2016 diagnosis
U.S. health care seemed stuck in the waiting room for part of the year, holding out for its future prognosis from courtroom and political decisions.
Election outcome expected to influence religious freedom in health care
A pair of Catholic physicians argue that changes in the way health care is paid for and stronger relationships between doctors and their patients will do more to improve people’s health and uphold the sanctity of life than bureaucratic government-run programs and expensive insurance policies.