- Bishop Thomas Olmsted
Priests who abuse children? Protected.
Nun who saves a life? Excommunicated.
In order to save the life of a critically ill woman who was pregnant, Sister Margaret McBride, an administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, allowed an abortion, according to The Arizona Republic.
According to Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, she would be automatically excommunicated.
This same Bishop has refused communion to an autistic child. He has excommunicated three gay priests (who were accused of no wrongdoing other than being gay).
And while Sister McBride’s excommunication was instantaneous, the Vatican waited 10 years to defrock one Phoenix pedophile priest, according to Arizona Family. Defrocked, but never excommunicated.
Sister McBride was also demoted from her position as administrator.
While the mother “had a rare and often fatal condition in which a pregnancy can cause the death of the mother,” according to Catholic News USA, the bishop responded by saying, “An unborn child is not a disease.”
However, don’t people die from things other than disease?
Make up your mind first the Church is evil for not protecting children, then they are evil for protecting children. Talk about double standards please… only attack us with 1 of your misinformed statements at a time so you don’t make yourself look quite so confused as you really are.
Abortion is no less murder than lethal injection, the child is younger but still a human life not medical waste.
Obviously you are using the logic of the Catholic Church and your logic is not the same as mine. That’s fine, but don’t act as though you don’t understand the hypocrisy.
The abortion was approved to save the mother’s life. Had it not been performed, the mother would have died and so would the fetus. The nun made a difficult choice but saved a life. By your argument two “murders” are better than one. In my opinion, the nun would have been guilty of the mother’s murder had she not approved the procedure.
And yes, I am criticizing the church for immediately excommunicating a woman but repeatedly protecting men who are child abusers, eventually defrocking some of them after years of “study” but never excommunicating any of them, even those who have gone to jail for their crimes or cost the church millions of dollars.
Ahh this is a true case of irrational thinking. It is amazing to me the millions who are so tunnel visioned and drones of this man made institution. Perhaps the dear Sister will now become a free thinker.
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins. ”
Albert Einstein
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.Albert Einstein, “Religion and Science”, New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930