Archbishop Chaput on the New Health Care Legislation
March 25, 2010
The archbishop has some sobering words for the not-so-Catholic Catholic Health Association.
But the actions of the Catholic Health Association (CHA) in providing a deliberate public counter-message to the bishops were both surprising and profoundly disappointing; and also genuinely damaging. In the crucial final days of debate on health-care legislation, CHA lobbyists worked directly against the efforts of the American bishops in their approach to members of Congress. The bad law we now likely face, we owe in part to the efforts of the Catholic Health Association and similar “Catholic” organizations.
Read the Archbishop's entire column here.