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Helping the poor is making some people rich … next, on the American life League Report.
You may recall that last Spring, Bishop Thomas Olmsted announced that a nun had excommunicated
herself for authorizing an abortion at St. Joseph’s hospital in Phoenix.
And after St. Joseph’s and its parent group, Catholic Healthcare West, refused to acknowledge
the immorality of the abortion, Bishop Olmsted announced that the hospital is no longer Catholic.
But not twenty-four hours after Bishop Olmsted’s announcement about St. Joseph’s hospital,
Sr. Keehan of the Catholic Health Association had this to say:
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has many programs that reach out to
protect life. They had been confronted with a heartbreaking situation. They carefully
evaluated the patient's situation and correctly applied the Ethical and Religious Directives
for Catholic Health Care Services to it, saving the only life that was possible to save.
This is the same erroneous reasoning that Bishop Olmsted specifically rejected after
a full review of the case. So why is Sister Keehan even tossing in her comments at all.
I mean, what does she have to do with this case?.
Well, as it turns out,
Catholic Healthcare West isn’t just, as Sister Keehan stated, “a valued member of
the Catholic Health Association,” but the CEO of Catholic Healthcare West has been the
chairman of Catholic Health Association’s board for the past three years. Check it out.
Catholic Healthcare West is a member of the Catholic Health Association. Lloyd Dean is
the head of Catholic Healthcare West and Sister Keehan is the head of the Catholic Health
Association. But Dean was also the Chairman of the Board for CHA, so apparently
the fact that both groups ignored the bishops on Obamacare, and the fact that they are now
both ignoring Bishop Olmsted, is not a coincidence. And what’s truly staggering is how these
organizations conduct business.
Both Catholic Healthcare West and the Catholic Health Association style themselves as non-profit
organizations who place helping the poor at the top of their priority list; Well okay,
that’s good. But if helping the poor is such a priority,
why is Catholic Health Association helping itself to twenty-five percent of its annual
budget to pay for six employees including Sister Keehan’s $900,000 a year salary.
And from Catholic Healthcare West Lloyd Dean is being paid a whopping 8.8 million dollars.
Who would’ve guessed that helping the poor was so lucrative?
And here’s something else to ponder … considering Sr. Keehan defended an abortion
by a “valued member” of CHA,
she probably has no problems with the list of activities we reported on, such as the
sterilizations performed by CHW staff physicians,
Or, the fact that CHW’s Chief Executive Officer was the co-architect in the creation
of a city health plan called Healthy San Francisco.
On its brochure, Healthy San Francisco lists “Family Planning Services” as one of the
services covered, and according to the San Francisco Chronicle, this includes abortion.
And then there’s CHW’s community grants program. Every year, CHW members grant funds
to groups in their communities, including pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality groups
like the Glide Health Center and the San Francisco Health Plan.
San Francisco Health Plan’s 2010 Summary for Providers plainly states that it covers
abortion for children as young as 12.
And the Glide Health Center runs homosexual activist groups while its founder,
Cecil Williams, has presided over same-sex “weddings” for over 4 decades.
The real question here is, just how Catholic are Catholic Healthcare West and the Catholic
Health Association? Given how these two organizations defied the bishops on Obamacare, defied Church
moral teaching by defending an abortion, and betray the Church by funding her enemies
… how else will they betray the Church and her bishops?
[Keehan: We’re working closely with our bishops.]
Thankfully, Archbishop Niederauer has taken Bishop Olmsted’s startling discoveries to
heart and has announced that he is initiating his own inquiry into Catholic Healthcare West
whose headquarters are located in his archdiocese. And while that conversation is taking place,
perhaps the USCCB should reconsider its relationship with Sr. Keehan and her magisterium of nuns.
For American Life League I’m Michael Hichborn.