health care
Charlie Gard’s parents to find out where and when he will die
By Kim Hjelmgaard — July 27, 2017
LONDON (USA Today) — The couple has now conceded that Charlie should be moved to a hospice but hope to assemble a team of specialist doctors so they can spend more time with him before his life-support is switched off.
Clergy march in a ‘funeral procession’ to protest health care repeal
By Madeleine Buckley — July 25, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — This week protesters carried poster-sized death certificates and a cardboard coffin.
Pope prays for ill baby Charlie Gard and parents
By RNS staff — July 24, 2017
LONDON (AP) — The Vatican also said in a statement Monday evening that Francis 'feels especially close to them at this time of immense suffering.'
Charlie Gard’s parents end legal fight to take him to US for treatment
By Kim Hjelmgaard — July 24, 2017
LONDON (USA Today) — A lawyer representing Chris Gard, 32, and Connie Yates, 31, told Britain's High Court that 'time had run out' and that the 11-month-old's parents had made the decision after the American doctor who offered to treat the baby told them it was too late and wouldn't work.
Black clergy arrested while protesting Trump administration policies
By Madeleine Buckley — July 18, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Sixteen protesters were arrested Tuesday (July 18) on charges of "crowding, obstructing or incommoding" while trying to raise awareness of what they said was unjust legislation.
Trump touts support from evangelicals, Putin friendship in Robertson interview
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 13, 2017
(RNS) The interview with the host of 'The 700 Club' comes as new evidence of possible collusion with the Russians to influence the 2016 election was released.
British baby on life support draws in pope, Trump
By Jerome Socolovsky — July 5, 2017
LONDON (AP) The life support 11-month-old Charlie Gard is receiving at a London hospital soon will be turned off over the objections of his parents, who want to take him to the United States for experimental therapy they believe could prolong his life.
Vatican acknowledges past problems at ‘pope’s hospital’
By Jerome Socolovsky — July 5, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) An Associated Press investigation that found that under the hospital's previous administration, its mission had shifted to focus more on profits than on its young patients.
Analysis: Congregations can’t make up for proposed federal budget cuts
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 26, 2017
(RNS) Based on an analysis by Bread for the World, every religious congregation in the U.S. would have to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years to make up for the 2018 budget cuts President Trump has proposed.
Nuns help expand coverage and care in Rwanda’s health system
By Melanie Lidman — May 11, 2017
(RNS) In a poor, Rwandan village, four Kenyan sisters from the Little Daughters of St. Joseph Congregation run a health clinic, and build trust in a country still recovering from genocide and civil war.
Health care bill is a literal death sentence for many poor people
By Liz Theoharis — May 5, 2017
NEW YORK (RNS) Where are the prophets of our day echoing Isaiah, 'Woe to those who make unjust laws'?
The ethics of health care explained: Am I my brother’s keeper?
By Tom Krattenmaker — March 15, 2017
(RNS) The individual mandate frames the never-resolved question that goes to the heart of our society’s idea of itself as a moral, Christian nation, or at least a Christian-influenced one. What obligation do we have to our fellow citizens?
Why this Catholic will not join the March for Life
By Jon O'Brien — January 26, 2017
(RNS) The extreme agenda of the Catholic bishops and their allies neither values nor uplifts the lives of millions of women.
Catholic bishops urge Congress to preserve health care coverage
By David Gibson — January 18, 2017
(RNS) In a shift from past opposition, the hierarchy is warning the GOP-controlled Congress not to repeal Obamacare without providing a replacement that provides as much coverage.
For proper end-of-life care, medical professionals need to be religiously literate
By David Gibson — December 1, 2016
(RNS) Health care providers are often ill-equipped to discuss religion with patients, and that can affect their medical care.
