Professor Singer and Ms. Johnson Lantz provide a cogent overview of Catholic health care in the United States and address the key issues affecting Catholic health care in the coming years. In particular, (1) clarity in canonical and ethical interpretation; (2) industry consolidation; and (3) "next generation" sponsorship and the impact of these issues are discussed in detail. The authors conclu...

In 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops revised the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." A goal of the Directives is to maintain the moral integrity of Catholic health care institutions and to address controversies in bioethics and health care. The Directives represent a shift to an exclusively principle-based approach to moral reason. This shift th...

Seung-Hoon Baek, Sung Won Youn , Ho Kyun Kim, Oh-Choon Kwon, Sub Lee, Jongmin Lee Vascular and Aging Research Group, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea Department of Radiology, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea Department of Radiology, Kyungp...

www.icjournal.org Budding Yeast Cells in Peripheral Blood Smear: Clue to Candidemia Sung-Yeon Cho, Hyojin Chae, Myungshin Kim, Dong-Gun Lee, and Hee-Je Kim Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic Blood and Marrow Transplantation Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Co...

Whatever the final shape of healthcare reform, providers and sponsors are already collaborating with each other in various network arrangements. As they pursue these arrangements, they are asking questions about their role in a reformed system and whether the networks they participate in will strengthen their mission and ministry. Documents published about five years ago by the Catholic Health ...

1985. I presented an earlier version of this paper at the inaugural Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law hosted by Villanova University School of Law in 2003. I wish to thank everyone at Villanova who helped to plan and organize that first symposium, especially Mark Sargent, who as Dean of Villanova has demonstrated a palpable enthusiasm for fostering the Catholic intellectual tradi...