Department of Pathology, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taiwan, China; Department of Chemistry, Graduate Institute of Basic Medicine, Ph. D Program in Nutrition & Food science, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, China; Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taiwan, China; College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, China; School of Medicine, Taipei Medical Un...

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) Leadership Task Force on National Health Policy Reform has offered a proposal that, if enacted by Congress, would result in profound changes in the way providers deliver healthcare in the United States. The proposal would result in fewer acute healthcare facilities, challenge some acute care facilities to provide additional services and require each Catholi...

This paper examines the findings of a public opinion survey conducted to determine the knowledge of American women regarding implemented changes in Catholic hospitals and how they feel about the issue of limiting access to medical services. A total of 1000 women aged 18 years and above were contacted and interviewed between February 22 and March 5. In terms of awareness, although majority of ...

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

hile ethical issues have always been a fundamental consideration in healthcare, the unprecedented surge of restructuring involving partnerships, has crystallized its relevance. For denominational hospitals, Catholic hospitals in particular, it raises questions intrinsic to the nature and mission of the organizations themselves. I was fascinated by the opening sentence of a recent commentary in ...

"The idea of this interim commission was to carry over the spirit and deliberations of this meeting into the next stage so that what we talked about wasn't lost in transition," Malloy said. Of the 15 members of the commission, three are from North America. Joining Malloy are Father Joseph O'Hare, president of Fordham University and Sister Sally Furay, vice-president and provost of the Universit...

This paper reports on the process of Catholic School Renewal in a regional Australian diocese. In particular it focuses on the role and approach of district supervisors and the impact they have on a change process in the schools for which they are responsible. The research comprised a qualitative case study. Participants were a sample of staff members who worked in one of four selected Catholic...

This small book, published for the Christian Frontier Council, hopes "to stimulate discussion of their vocation among groups of Christian doctors and medical students." It is written by a layman, who took part in conversations between various Catholic and nonCatholic doctors, which he sets out to summarise. It is obviously valuable that discussion should occur, and therefore this attempt to pro...

In recent years, several controversies have beset official relations between Jews and Catholics. These include whether Catholics should pray for the conversion of Jews, whether the purpose of interreligious dialogue is to lead others to Christian faith, and whether Catholics should undertake non-coercive "missions" to Jews. An underlying theological topic in all these disputes is how the biblic...