Pope Francis said, “Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions ... Religious fundamentalism is not religious, because it lacks God. It is idolatry, like idolatry of money ... We Catholics have some — and not some, many — who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil.”¹
Convinced that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State, and that persons with disabilities and their family members should receive the necessary protection and assistance to enable families to contribute towards the full and equal enjoyments of the rights of persons with disabilities...¹
A study by the Catholic Health Association indicates that the national Catholic health care ministry may lose as many as 70 percent of its ethicists by the year 2031. Though about 2 of every 3 ethicists are now over the age of 50, there is a significant lack of succession planning for these vital positions in Catholic health care organizations.¹
Catholic social teaching’s attention to the common good has potential for disentangling some of health care’s knottiest paradoxes: American health care is both abundant and scarce. Although the U.S. appears to have the least medical-care rationing of any similar country, we legitimately can be described as having more. It’s just that our kind of rationing isn't so obvious.
Viewed through the lenses of Catholic social teaching and solidarity, the 2014 Ebola epidemic was a failure of both, because health equity is at the center of the Catholic understanding of health care as a basic human right of all persons, regardless of ability to pay or citizenship status.
Co-sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, South Dakota, and the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, South Dakota, Avera Health was established in 2000 when the two congregations joined as one health ministry to serve the greater South Dakota area and four surrounding states.
After completing my training program in critical care medicine more than 35 years ago, I joined Mercy Hospital St. Louis in Missouri, known then as St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. Although I didn’t fully appreciate it at the time, I was blessed to join a Catholic-based health care system built on the ideals of Catherine McAuley and the Sisters of Mercy.
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