Christ First Forum

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 6/30/2009 4:30:00 AM

A Catholic hospital chain in Massachusetts has bowed to public pressure.

Jim Sedlak of American Life League (ALL) points out a pending merger between the hospital and a pro-abortion healthcare network sparked an outrage among pro-life supporters.

"The Catholic hospital system in Boston, known as Caritas Christi, had already signed papers to enter into an agreement with a secular organization to provide a healthcare network that would cover abortions, contraception, and other things that are against Catholic teaching," he notes.

The contract with pro-abortion Centene Corp would have gone into effect July 1, according to an ALL press release. ALL members and others around the country urged Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley to halt the contract.

"The cardinal announced that he had gotten involved and that he had ordered that the whole arrangement be ended," Sedlak adds, "and that Caritas Christi will remain separate as a Catholic hospital system."

ALL president Judie Brown commended Cardinal O'Malley for his courage, leadership, and "pastoral concern for the health and well-being" of the unborn. His actions, she says, are "a sign of the vitality" of American Catholics' commitment to human life and personhood.
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