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Bishops Step Over the Line

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 04.25.2012

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Barbara Coombs Lee

As with contraception, a free society must find the middle ground. Catholic Bishops must be free to exercise their religion, yet we cannot allow them to deny that same freedom to the rest of us.

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Phoenix Controversy Highlights Rift Between Catholic Hospitals And Church Leadership

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service An umbrella group of Catholic hospitals is backing a Phoenix hospital that was stripped of its church affiliati...

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Study Says Religious Hospitals More Efficient, Provide Better Care

Religion News Service | Daniel Burke | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Catholic and other church-run health care systems in the U.S. are more efficient and provide higher quali...

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St. Vincent's Hospital Saved My Life After a Drug Overdose

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blake Fleetwood

Funny how the government is so anxious to bail out the banks, when they can't help a hospital that serves the poor?

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Time Of Death: 8:15 A.M.

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Associated Press) - St. Vincent's Hospital, a 160-year institution in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, closed for good Friday after months of ...

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St. Vincent's Hospital Will End Inpatient Services: Acute, Rehab, Behavioral Health Care Services Cut

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Officials say St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan will shut its inpatient services after efforts to rescue the debt-ridden institutio...

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A Bad Deal for Health Care in Illinois

Edwin Yohnka | Posted 05.25.2011

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Edwin Yohnka

In a little reported local move, Resurrection Health Care, a Roman Catholic health system, is seeking to sell two of its suburban Chicago hospitals to the nonsectarian Vanguard Health Systems.

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A Flawed Step Forward on Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health care debate. To say the process hasn't been pretty would be one of the biggest Washington understatements in years.

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