Here's a scandal for you. Five out of nine members of the Boston Caritas Christi hospital network board of governors are "major contributors" to pro-abortion politicians. Not entirely surprising but still very discouraging.
Add this to the pressure to perform abortions and prescribe birth control pills, and I don't even know if there is pressure to do IVF and everything else.
This makes me wonder if it isn't time to pack up shop — close the hospitals, liquidate the assets, and sell the buildings to a non-hospital entity. (You can't just sell the hospital as a whole because someone will just come in and start doing abortions, and what good did that do?) It's just a) too difficult now to resist the onslaught of secularization; b) time we demonstrate to the world how much Catholics contributed to health care. It would be sad to see Catholic hospitals close, but this just doesn't seem to be an auspicious time in history for them to continue. It's only going to get worse.
Of course I have no idea if the Cardinal could do this unilaterally. I see that it is a board of governors and not a board of directors; not sure if that is significant.
But I don't expect Cardinal Sean to do this. For better or for worse.
