November 20, 2009 |
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 November 2009 Catholic Charities helps form affordable health careORLANDO | A woman walked through the door of the Lazarus Free Medical Clinic this year, desperately seeking help after giving birth to her child at home. She was bleeding severely and her look of fear and desperation was evident. Medical volunteers at the clinic arranged for this woman, living below the federal poverty level, to be transported to a hospital and receive emergency care to save her life. Like so many now living and working in the United States, she was uninsured and affording health care was not a financial option she could afford. MORE... Health Care Reform: ‘Not Out Of The Woods Yet’MIAMI | Passage of the health care reform bill in the House of Representatives earlier this month was a narrow victory that hinged on an amendment specifically forbidding taxpayer-funded abortions — a win for the U.S. bishops, who have long pushed for health care reform but made clear early on that liberal abortion provisions would derail their support for any bill. MORE... Health Care Reform And Catholic HospitalsMIAMI | John C. Johnson serves as president and chief executive of both Mercy Hospital in Miami and Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. Both hospitals are members of Catholic Health East, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems. He shared his views with the Florida Catholic about the health care reform proposals being considered by Congress and how they might affect Catholic hospitals. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. MORE... Forgiveness, Compassion Woven In VocationJENSEN BEACH | Ordained to the sacred priesthood of Jesus Christ in 2003, I have been inordinately blessed in manifold and diverse ways ministering to the people of God — the body of Christ — in a sacramental way. No one thing of my rather full-lived experience could have properly prepared me for the opportunities to encounter and companion my sisters and brothers as a priest-servant. However, most, if not all of my former way of life, has significantly contributed to the “how” God has used me to be present to his people, thereby empowering me to see, albeit imperfectly, as to the “why” I am called. MORE... Fulfilling an urgent requestORLANDO | Florida bishops immediately responded to an urgent Oct. 28 request from the U.S. bishops’ leaders on health care reform to turn up the heat on federal lawmakers to make both the House and Senate versions of the bill abortion-neutral before bringing them up for an overall vote. The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of the three major USCCB committees engaged in health care reform wrote to all the bishops and asked that they personally contact their area’s members of Congress and also to ask that a USCCB bulletin insert on health care reform be printed or hand-stuffed in every parish bulletin and/or distributed in pews or at church entrances as soon as possible. MORE... |
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